TimeXtender Desktop Q&A

Hi all, We recently started developing a new data platform using TimeXtender with Tableau as a visualization tool. We are currently determining how to setup our endpoint in TimeXtender for Tableau as we have several options, each with their pro's and con's. Im wondering what choice others made and if maybe there's something we haven't thought about yet while trying to make this choice. As we see it now we have three main options: - Multiple .tds files, one for each fact table. As Tableau requires all tables to have a relation with eachother it is not possible to have a .tds file endpoint with all facts as not all facts relate to all dimensions. Pro's: smaller, efficient sources with good manageable security. Cons: Can become difficult to maintain with lots of .tds which share dimensions, for example when an attribute is added to a dimension this has to be done multiple times. When using multiple .tds sources in a Tableau sheet there's no way to link shared dimen

We would like to be able to set specific schedules for our different environments. For example som execution packages could run on schedule in our QA environment during testing. And the TXDictionary should run on schedule in all environments.

Customer is a large user of Qlik Sense and also has Qlik ODI installed. He wants to create a Datawarehouse for his varied core data and has asked me if Timextender will add value when Qlik ODI already. And will the value add be marginal or substantial.

Is there an option to set a default value for a simple table such that we can fill it with some value without doing any transformations. It then also should be possible to add fields for simple tables, but that you can only fill it with a default value. It would also be helpful in the DSA. 

Hi, I tried to execute a transfer task on my data source however I encountered the following error:  The execution failed with error:System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Property cannot be updated or deleted. Property 'OwnerId' does not exist for 'object specified'. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection, Action`1 wrapCloseInAction) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean callerHasConnectionLock, Boolean asyncClose) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.TryRun(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean& dataReady) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteNonQueryTds(String methodName, Boolean async, Int32 timeout, Boolean asyncWrite) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.InternalExecuteNonQ

Has anyone experience which fieldsto fill to get the CDATA evernote connector working ? 

I am busy with de TimeXtender Learn (TimeXtender Optimization) en there is an exercise :  Right click DSA node and choose Automate > Add Suggested Constraints.  De instruction is on TX 20.5.6.64, we work with 20.10.23.64. I can't find this function. Is that correct ? 

Is there a way to create a many to many relationship in the Tabular model.I have one tableDataWith Fields Project , Amount I then have a project Device TableWith fields Project, Devicee.g. A, 1A,2A,3B,1B,2 I then have a project tableWith fields Project And a device tableWith fields device The issue is I want to see the data table by device and project. The main data table contains 32 millions records and the project device table contains 10,000 combinations  so a workaround by creating a new fact table by creating a full outer join on the two tables might be a little inefficient , thanks

I am unable to use the Add related records on a table. I get the error message "There is no relation between table-A and the table table-B". I have added a condition where the key in both tables should be equal. I have also tried creating a relation between the two tables in both directions but no luck. There is no mention in the docs that it is needed to add a relation before adding related records. I am getting a Warning that the source table is executed after the destination table. What am I doing wrong?

I would like to have the ability to stop a running task in the ODX server. Right now I have a task that is running and has timed out after 1h several times. I think I need to synchronize the data source and that would fix the issue, but I have no way of stopping the running task. So I have to wait for it to time out and let the synchronization be pending.

I am unable to set up notifications on critical errors in the ODX server. I get the following error message:My guess is that our SMTP server only accepts AD authentication. Is there a workaround?

Is there a way to use IS NOT NULL as one of the join conditions on a lookup? I want to get the TOP (1) record where a field is not null, ordered by date. Currently I have to edit the _Clean stored procedure as custom code to add it, which is obviously not the best way to do things. Thanks

I have a package with an active schedule and now and then the package is, for some unknown reason, not executed.  Scheduler Service was running at the time of the preferred execution time. How do I resolve the cause of this issue?  

Goodmorning,currently I am trying to extract data from a REST API. However the JSON response is structured oddly. In the image below you can see a sample, the numerical values (704, 1406, 1517) whcih represent userID's, aData represents a JSON Object.I am able to extract the aData data. However I am not able to get the corresponding numeric values, since they are not a key:value pair. I suspect I am doing something wrong with my JSONPath and/or xpath. Below is party of my RSD file (except the methods):<api:info title="data" desc="Generated schema file." xmlns:other="http://apiscript.com/ns?v1"> <!-- You can modify the name, type, and column size here. --> <attr name="_id"xs:type="integer"readonly="false" key="true"other:xPath="/_id"/> <attr name="ID"xs:type="string"readonly="false"oth

ODX Server is running fine, but transfer en sync jobs fail.Error occurs when I 'Select Tables'.What to do?Error in command: 'Select Tables...'.Service request failed: ODX.Model.Exceptions.DataSourceException: The custom data source is out of date and needs to be updated.at DataSourceEngine.Custom.CustomSourceEngine.IsDataSourceVersionValid(Version version)at DataSourceEngine.Custom.CustomSourceEngine.GetCustomDataSource()at DataSourceEngine.Custom.CustomSourceEngine.<GetSupportedFilterModeType>b__48_0()at DataSourceEngine.Custom.CustomSourceEngine.GetSupportedFilterModeType()Details:Service request failed: ODX.Model.Exceptions.DataSourceException: The custom data source is out of date and needs to be updated. ...Module: TimeXtender.ODX.EngineTimeXtender.ODX.Engine.ODXFaultExceptionat TimeXtender.ODX.Engine.ODXEngine.SendServiceRequest[C,T](WcfServerSettings serverSettings, ProjectInformation pr

When you set up primary key behaviour to 'error' you elegantly force all valid data to be unique combinations of your selected primary keys. But, how do you control what individual dataset is regarded as valid and what is discarded as error ? Is there a way to let the primary key violation error handling know, which record you consider the valid one ?  (e.g. based on min/max values in non-primary key data fields)

When I recently moved our production environment to a new server and was working on deploying the entire data warehouse in TimeXtender I had some difficulties. First I did a complete (full?) and managed deploy which seemed to be successful. When I then tried to run a few execution packages one of them said it was missing a view. Then I did a differential managed deploy and it listed a lot of objects not already deployed!! OK, so I ran that which seemed to succeed as well. Tried the execution package that failed again but with the same result. Third time I did a differential deploy but this time after the deploy was done I noticed that the scrollbar in the results dialog was not all the way up! There at the top an error message was hiding. I had guard on deploy on some tables which was highlighted and hence covering up the error message. The actual error was that a view was not able to deploy because of a user defined function was missing. This UDF is defined in TimeXte

Hi I am trying retrieve data through an API using XMLI am getting the following error. The API requires I use a wildcard  to retrieve all values. My XML works if I use Postman / Swagger to test.Error obtaining value for column 'ProductList.Product.ProductCode': Error parsing long value [ * ].Details:Error parsing long value [ * ].Module: System.Data.CData.XMLdvo200m.hqat dvo200m.Uw.qM(String )at dvo200m.Uw.u(String , Int32 , Int32 , Boolean )at dvo200m.fZ.Na(String , Int32 , Int32 )at dvo200m.ZG.H(Int32 , Int32 , Int32 )Error obtaining value for column 'ProductList.Product.ProductCode': Error parsing long value [ * ].Module: System.Data.CData.XMLdvo200m.hqat dvo200m.ZG.H(Int32 , Int32 , Int32 )at dvo200m.ZG.GetValue(Int32 , Int32 )at CData.Sql.ResultSetBase.GetValue(Int32 colIndex, Int32 dataType)at dvo200m.Zv.L(Int32 , Int32 , Int32 )Error obtaining value for column 'Pr

Hello,So I am loading historical data into tables in TX created of Excel files. One file for property data, one file for casualty data. After some time the file format changes and they combine these two separate files into one file and add new fields.Can I create a new data source to load the new file but still use the original worksheet tab names such that the data will still load into the existing tables?Thanks in advance.P.S. I am using Discovery Hub 17.12.13.64

Good Morning, We have recently upgraded TimeXtender to version 20.10.15.64. Both in QA and PROD servers. We have TX ETL jobs that extract data from Oracle database server to both server every night. They run at different times. However, the PROD ETL job takes longer to extract data. QA ETL job takes quicker. 1. QA TX on average takes 3hours to extract data from PROD oracle. 2. PROD TX on average takes 5 hours or more to extract the same information from PROD Oracle. Sometimes this take longer than this. 3.PROD TX sometimes hangs the whole night. 4. PROD TX has higher specs than QA. 5. We have checked the Performance Indicators  on PROD server while PROD TX is running. The CPU, Memory and other indicators seems well. 6. We trying to figure out why performance on PROD is slow during the data extraction from Oracle. We have checked all necessary indicators to and we still don't have answers. Is there anything that yo

Essentially, I am currently creating csv files from extracts of many TimeXtender tables.  Let suppose the data in a table is a column which identifies each row by country and the table contains many rows for each country, then I would need to create a file for each ISO country that existed in the table. I know how to do this by hand, but am wondering if there is a clever way of automating this in TX without having to build an SSIS package?Thank,Greg

I am able to deploy the semantic model but when I execute it I get the following error message: The current operation was cancelled because another operation in the transaction failed. Details: The current operation was cancelled because another operation in the transaction failed.System.Exception Not much do work with Im sorry to say but this is what I get. This is the TXDictionary project and it has worked before i moved it to a new server. The rest of the project executes fine (ODX, DSA and MDW).

Hello,I'm relatively new to TX.I'm getting the following warning when trying to load tables from an external source:The table folder 'Y' is used by another table with the id xxxx.How do I fix this?

I have been running into a problem where my execution package keeps failing due to a deadlock between an index rebuild and a select statement on sys.tables. TimeXtender is running both process' and one eventually gets killed and fails the entire job. in subsequent executions it has always failed on an index rebuild, but not the same index. Has anyone run into this issue or have any solutions? here's the query.SELECTSCHEMA_NAME(tbl.schema_id) AS [Schema],tbl.name AS [Name],tbl.object_id AS [ID],CAST(case    when tbl.is_ms_shipped = 1 then 1    when (        select            major_id        from            sys.extended_properties        where            major_id = tbl.object_id and            minor_id = 0 and            class = 1 and

Is it not possible to create a semantic model with no endpoint? For me, the beauty of the semantic models is that I can quickly create views for 'data marts' where I can do data selection rules without having to write a single line of code.  In previous versions of TX I could use the Qlik (Deprecated) semantic model for this because it didn't need an endpoint in order to deploy the views. But the newest version(s) of TX does not support this. So what if I'm moving entire corporation's data visualizations to Qlik SaaS (basically Qlik Sense in the cloud)? Can I no longer use semantic models?