TimeXtender Desktop Q&A

Hi Support, We are experiencing an issue with the prioritization in our execution package. Our trip table is updated with an update script using data from the number_per_trip table.However, the trip table is loaded before the numbers_per_trip table. This results in missing new data in the trip table as the number_per_trip table has not yet been loaded before the script action is executed. We would like to change the loading order of these tables and have tried to do this by adding prioritization. This has no effect on the load whatsoever. I cannot find out what the problem is.Are there any settings blocking the prioritization feature or are we using the feature in the wrong way?See settings below. 

This article explains the process of adding tables to Deliver instances. By providing only the most relevant data to each department or business unit in the form of a data mart, data consumers do not have to waste time sorting through all the data in the warehouse to find what they need.Adding a Table to a Deliver instance Adding a Data Selection Rule to a Table Adding a Hierarchy to a Table Setting a Default Date Table Adding a Table to a Deliver instanceDrag a table from a data area to Tables under the relevant Deliver instance. If the table name is to be changed, type the new name in the Name box. In the Description box, type a description of the model for use in front-end tools. Note: This setting applies to SSAS Tabular endpoints only. Select the fields to be included. (Optional) In the Hidden column, check the box for any fields that are to be hidden, which means they will be added to the Deliver instance table but will not be shown in the endpoint. Click OK to add the

When loading regularly (every hour) using incremental load, the ODX seems to “lose” transactions from source. Next run of the incremental load, ODX does not catch these missing transactions. The work around is to full load data, but the this takes long time. And it renders the incremental load useless as it is not to be trusted.We are running 20.10.34. Does any of the newer 20 versions have a fix to this?Regards Mads

HelloI currently have a column with the following file name in one of my tables. C:\Users\John\OneDrive - Sales Solutions\Desktop\TimeXtender\TMX-DataSamples\RLZ\BESTERS - BESTERS POINT - BESTERS IND_DEC 22_101602_0.txtIs there a way to remove the path name in the column to only have the file name?I have a file for each month and have merged the files so all the data is in one table. For example, remove this piece: C:\Users\John\OneDrive - Sales Solutions\Desktop\TimeXtender\TMX-DataSamples\RLZ\and only show this piece:BESTERS - BESTERS POINT - BESTERS IND_DEC 22 as the file name.I also need to have the Month Year (DEC 22) of each file copied into a new column called “Date”. Is this at all possible?Thank you 

How can I solve extension _R tables failing to create? I am working on the old project Now.This project was copied from another project repository.Environment: SandboxVersion: 20.10.36.64Data Source: Business unitProvider: SQL Server Data SourceThe connection with the Data source is good and synchronized well.When I am deploying the tables in ODX storage getting an Error.An error occurred during create a table. See exception details for the failing object: Create failed for Table 'BSA.BSA_dbo_Inspection_R'.An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch.The specified schema name "BSA" either does not exist or you do not have permission to use it.    

Did anyone try to connect azure sql database using Azure AD Integrated Authentication? I notice MFA was missing as an Auth type but AD Integrated was failing with error. Let me know if anyone resolved this error.    One or more errors occurred.Could not discover endpoint for Integrate Windows Authentication. Check your ADFS settings. It should support Integrate Widows Authentication for WS-Trust 1.3 or WS-Trust 2005. Details: Could not discover endpoint for Integrate Windows Authentication. Check your ADFS settings. It should support Integrate Widows Authentication for WS-Trust 1.3 or WS-Trust 2005.

Hi,I can’t find a way to update my table with the new field [Color] that has been added to the view the table insert is based on. Any suggestions?BRAnders

On clean procedures generated by TX, they seem to have a RECOMPILE embedded into the procedure itself as a general rule. I think this is to keep them fresh to other changes in a project that get introduced. But do we know the exact reason why, and is there a way to remove other that doing a customized change table by table? 

Dear Support,The reload in TimeXtender is giving the error: An item with the same key has already been added.It seems to be that one column is mapped on two different columns in the same table.Is there a quick solution to find the column which is causing this error? Thanks in advance! Christian 

Hi,We have a SSL execution that works properly when started from the SSL Executions panel (right click - Execute).But it fails when executed from a Job. The message in the Job log:The log entry in the SSL Execution panel: Version 6221.1 Any ideas?BRAnders

I have 3 tables in my src data warehouse:src.SalesOrderItemsDelta, this table gets filled every day with a delta (changes today vs yesterday) of our order lines. Via    src.SalesOrderItems, this table gets filled every Saturday night with all the order lines available.   src.preFactSalesOrderItems, this table gets filled via a custom table insert with the following table insert: SELECT [SalesOrderItemID] ,[SapClient] ,[SalesOrderNumber] ,[SalesOrderItemNumber] ,[SalesOrganization] ,[DistributionChannel] ,[Division] ,[FaboryArticleNumber] ,[SoldToCustomerCode] ,[BinCode] ,[CreatedOnDate] ,[CreatedOnDateID] ,[ChangedOnDate] ,[ReasonForRejectionCode] ,[PromisedDeliveryDate] ,[PromisedDeliveryDateID] ,[CommunicatedDeliveryDate] ,[CommunicatedDeliveryDateID] ,[PlantCode] ,[SalesAmount] ,[SalesCurrency] ,[ItemCategoryCode] ,[OrderedQuantity] ,[BinQuantity] ,[SalesOrderCategoryCode] ,[SalesOfficeCode] ,[ConfirmedDeliveryDate] ,[ConfirmedDeliveryDateID] ,[CommittedDeliveryDate] ,[CommittedD

We have a setup with 3 environments (Dev/Test/Prod) running in the legacy version, with a BU Based ODX, DSA, MDW and Several SSLs. Based on a on-prem SQL Server setup. Fairly common I guess.We are multiple developers on a shared project, making changes daily to the project, and therefore needs some QA process. Our target is to have changes and new functionality running on Test for a week before transfering to production. In addition to out centralised BI org, we support the data needs of analysts in the different departments. For this we have established replica databases of ODX and MDW. The analysts can read these replicas without interfering with the centralised data processing (The primary reason for the replicas). Along with the data read access, we have a database the analysist have the rights create objects in (typically views and stored procedures). The analyst environment will only be exposed on our prod platform.We would like to provide a better SLA for our Analysts for new ta

I am working on Sandbox Environment.I on using ODX 20.10.36.64.I executed tables on 25th and today 27th in ODX DataSource.What I noticed is in my SQL server new tables were created.Do I need to update any settings to resolve this?SQL server 

Is there someone who has a quick reference card how to create the connection with an exchange server using the CDATA connector.  We tried several settings with the server, but nothing works. 

I've got an API that returns JSON data. One of the fields contains a UUE encoded csv file. Is there a way to load this to the ODX without some external pre processing?Thanks,Gerrit

I’ve created a query table that suddenly started to fail. When I press Validate everything is fine.I can even preview the table in the sourceI can also run the query on the source. But when I execute the table, with the same user as above I get this message:  Here’s the query:SELECT        t1.[TRANSACTIONCURRENCYAMOUNT]      ,t1.[ACCOUNTINGCURRENCYAMOUNT]      ,t1.[REPORTINGCURRENCYAMOUNT]      ,t1.[QUANTITY]      ,t1.[ALLOCATIONLEVEL]      ,t1.[ISCORRECTION]      ,t1.[ISCREDIT]      ,t1.[TRANSACTIONCURRENCYCODE]      ,t1.[PAYMENTREFERENCE]      ,t1.[POSTINGTYPE]      ,t1.[LEDGERDIMENSION]      ,t1.[GENERALJOURNALENTRY]      ,t1.[TEXT]      ,t1.[REASONREF]      ,t1.[PROJID_SA]      ,t1.[PROJTABLEDATAAREAID]      ,t1.[LEDGERACCOUNT]      ,t1.[HISTORICALEXCHANGERATEDATE]      ,t1.[CREATEDTRANSACTIONID]      ,t1.[RECVERSION]      ,t1.[PARTITION]      ,t1.[RECID]      ,t1.[MAINACCOUNT]      ,t1.[MODIFIEDDATETIME]      ,t1.[CREATEDDATETIME]      ,t2.ACCOUNTINGDATE      ,t2.DOCUMENTNUMBER  

Hi all, I create a datatable from Json file with REST data source but got an error as below. ‘The bcp client received an invalid column length for column ID 1.’ Since the the column is zero based I look for the data in second column in my json file. I have ensured that the first and second columns are not read in the RSD file. However, the problem still persists. I believe the issue may be due to the data in this column being too large. This is API: https://archive-api.open-meteo.com/v1/archive?latitude=51.51&longitude=-0.13&start_date=2018-01-01&end_date=2023-04-15&models=best_match&daily=weathercode,temperature_2m_max,temperature_2m_min,temperature_2m_mean,apparent_temperature_max,apparent_temperature_min,sunrise,sunset,shortwave_radiation_sum,precipitation_sum,rain_sum,snowfall_sum,precipitation_hours,windspeed_10m_max,windgusts_10m_max,winddirection_10m_dominant,et0_fao_evapotranspiration&timezone=Europe%2FBerlin How can I solve this issue?  Thank you

I would like to be able to flash fill down NULL values in my DSA table with certain conditions.In the table below I have multiple NULL values. Take for example the column ‘CardCode DUAL’.Row 2 with Company key MTW and project 1201121979 shows for CardCode DUAL DB0006. I would like to show value DB0006 also for all other rows where company key = MTW and project = 1201121969.Same for Route Bron column. I would like to fill down NULL values on the most recent NON Blank value for that Company_Key+Project combination.I think it should be possible with a self join or self select, but not sure how.   

Hi community,we are facing the problem, that we create duplicates when we bring data from an ODX API source to the MDW. We are working with an overlapping sliding window of two days in the schema file (because data can change and there is no last modified date) and only set the primary key on the ODX source.In the MDW (dedicated SQL pool) we enabled the history and set the ID as natural key. All fields are marked as type 1 fields.The execution brings us duplicated ID values - no updates are madeThanks for your helpMichael

We are using Business unit to land our data in the DW. We have a few columns where we need to obfuscate some of the data.At what point should a script action be placed to update the field in the raw table prior to the data being moved into the valid table, so our script does not need to include an update to the field in both the raw and valid table. the script uses UPDATE table SET column

Hello,We have a data source that contains several additional/stacked connections in our Business Unit. We now wanted to add the 4th additional connection (so in total 5 data connections), but TimeXtender crashes when clicking on OK after configuring the connection. I think it tries to connect to the data source and get meta data for the tables it needs to select but somehow this fails. Found this in the Event Viewer:  The errors are as follows:.NET = System.OutOfMemoryExceptoiin Application Error =  Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\TimeXtender\TimeXtender 20.10.38.64\timeXtender.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.dll Application Error = same as 2.)We are on version 20.10.38, do you have any idea what might be causing this? Why don't we get a proper error message in TX interface?Connection to the data source through SSMS is working without any issues by the way.Best regards,Kaj

I’ve got the following user request but I am not sure what the most optimal solution is, as i can think of many possibilities.I’ve got 2 Facts Tables:DSA.Fact_Turnover DSA.Fact_TransportOrdersBoth Facts contain the ‘Project’ column. The user request is to finally get the Turnover for all projects which are in Fact_TransportOrder. What is the most optimal way to get a check column to see if the Project value of Fact_TransportOrder is also present in Fact_Turnover and why? I want to use this filter column to eventually only present him the Turnover for projects which are also present in the Fact_TransportOrder.I’m really curious, as I already have such solutions, but am not sure if there are more easy TimeXtender functions or tricks which i’m not using currently.

After connecting successfully to my SQL server and adding the tables & rows I am able to preview the data by Select Tables. The Synchronize task also completed successfully. However, when I execute the Transfer task it fails with 2 errors (see attachments). I can’t figure out the reason why it fails though but the error message suggests something that (The specified path does not exist). I tried to remove the File Container in Azure and sync+transfer again, but it does’nt make a difference.  

We have 2 jobsJob 1 runs at 11pm and normally runs 1 hour. Job 2 runs at 1am and must run after Job 1 completes, this job usually runs for 6 hours. On occasions Job 1 runs 3 hours and this causes job 2 to miss it start window. How can I adjust the schedule so that Job 2 has 2 criteria?   1-Job 1 completes   2-Has to start after 1am

Hi,We are using the Excel Online connector which is authenticated with a service account and uses delegated permissions to access Excel files on Sharepoint. The idea is that all relevant files will be shared with this account and then loaded into our DWH. The required files are visible on Sharepoint when siging in with the user:But for some reason, they are not when using the Excel Online connector (with option Show shared documents = ‘True’). I know that the connector uses the /SharedWithMe (OneDrive) call to fetch shared items, since that is what I inferred from the logging.This call indeed retrieves no results through the Graph Explorer, but the files are visible through another, similar, call on the Graph Explorer (the one from ‘Insights’): Why are files visible on Sharepoint but not on OneDrive? Is there a way to work around this? I have seen use cases where they actually are visible on both Sharepoint and OneDrive and the connector is working properly.