TimeXtender Desktop Q&A

Hi all, I have a customer that has to deal with an unreliable source system. During transfering specific query tables, it sometimes fails. As there is no retry option on this level, at least we can do right now is to inform the customer that things went wrong. Unfortunately the TimeXtender API does not tell us there is anything wrong with this run. The “State” is 2, and all the child “JobExecutionLogs” child entries below the job itself all have the “Severity” value of 0. Does someone recognize this situation? Anything we can do differently to inform the customer?

Dear Sir, I am connecting through Cdata to Sharepoint Online.I have hierarchies in my Sharepoint data, I can see them when I connect with PowerBI to my Sharepoint site. Can I use the Data Model feature ‘Flatten Documents’ like you can with JSon connectivity ? It looks like CData for Sharepoint Online doesn't have this capability. Can I somehow bring these ‘hidden fields’ into my TimeXtender project ? In the attachment (Knipsel.PNG) you can see the hierarchical option in PowerBI with PowerQuery. I miss these fields when I connect with TX Cdata to the same Sharepoint site. Hope you can shine a light on this. Thank you in advance for looking into this case. Regards, Arthur

Hi, I’m am trying to create a ODBC data source connection in the TimeXtender ODX portal. I have created a ODBC data source on the server on which TimeXtender is run, see picture below. This data source seems to work fine, I am able to test the connection with success and I am able to connect to the database and query the data through PSQL control center on the server. ODBC Data Source on TimeXtender VM In the TimeXtender portal, my configuration is as follows: TimeXtender portal configuration When trying to test the connection, I get the error “Buffer cannot be null. Parameter name: buffer”. I have tried adding buffer as an additional property without success. I am unable to find documentation or guidance on how to solve this issue. Since I am able to connect to the database and query the data through PSQL control center on the server on which TimeXtender is run, the ODBC data source on the server seems to be working correctly. It is only through the TimeXtender portal I am unable to u

Hello Community! When running a rollup task, the resulting rollup file ends up in a separate folder inside the same full load folder: After the rollup, new incremental files continue to appear in the DATA folder and the old incremental files are still there. What have we achieved by doing the rollup? Is the new rollup file being used at all? How can we delete the old incremental files given that the delete Storage Management task only removes entire full load folders and we don’t perform full loads? Currently I don’t understand how we can clean up the many incremental files, both for load performance and storage management. Please note: We cannot rely on doing regular full loads because of the size of the tables. Thanks! TX version: 6745.1 Connector: TimeXtender SQL Data Source 21.0.2.1 We are using Azure Data Lake and ADF.

I’m trying to connect to Business Central Online using the Time Xtender connector. I’m using a service principal which has an app registration in Azure and I’ve run through all the steps in the BC/TX tutorial. I’m getting the following error message when I try to add the data source. Any ideas what might happen Service request failed: Sequence contains no matching element (System.InvalidOperationException) Details: Service request failed: Sequence contains no matching element (System.InvalidOperationException)Module: TimeXtender.ODX.EngineTimeXtender.ODX.Engine.ODXFaultException at TimeXtender.ODX.Engine.ODXEngine.SendServiceRequest[C,T](WcfServerSettings serverSettings, Func`3 func) at TimeXtender.DataManager.AddODXDataSourceWizard_SelectConnectionStep.<>c__DisplayClass11_0.<Validate>b__0() at TimeXtender.DataManager.ConnectingThread.ExecuteConnectingThread(Object dummy) Service request failed: Sequence contains no matching element (System.InvalidOperationException)Module: timeXtender

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Hi support, Following this ticket I will make one myself to keep things clear. We have set up a Business Central 365 connection, both via OAuth2.0 as service to service authentication. We have succesfully tested the connection with both authentication options. However, when we want to read objects, we receive the error “Invalid response from Business Central retrieving table Field for company”. Full log is added to this ticket as an attachment. We have walked through all steps from the prerequisites guide. Hence, we have a succesful connection. From the other ticket I understand that there are more versions of the Jet Analytics for Business Central extension. It has to be the newest one and I have to keep on trying. In the Extension Marketplace we only find two versions of the Jet Analytics for Business Central extension. The first from Jet Global Data Technologies is not available anymore and they point to the second; the one from insightsoftware. This is the one we have installed; ve

I am deploying a project to Snowflake and see a lof of tables are skipped. Then we get the messages below (as an example) Apparantly the tales are skipped as key stores / supernatural keys are not supported . Is this a feature to become available on short notice as our entire datawarehouse uses these? Besides that, is there a way I can see what any other unsupported feautures we have?

Hi!I’m doing some tests and trying to set up som e form of incremental load with this connector to an API endpoint. It works fine with the two static parameters but as soon as I add the parameter for lastSynchronizedRowVersion with its dynamic value I get an error with I run the Synchronize job.Is there something obvious that I have missed here?I tried to follow the article Connect to Fixer IO with the TimeXtender REST data source | Community Setup for the endpoint: Error message:

Hello, when i try to open my project on my development server i get the below message; Details: Error loading steps for execution package Refresh PowerBI - PModule: timeXtenderSystem.Exception at TimeXtender.DataManager.ExecutionPackage.LoadSteps(HashSet`1 projectSteps) at TimeXtender.DataManager.Project.LoadExecutionpackages(List`1 listToUpdateWhenAllIsLoaded) at TimeXtender.DataManager.Project.InitProject(Int32 version, DsProject loadDsProject, DataSet adaptersDataSet, ProjectsRow projectRow) at TimeXtender.DataManager.Project.LoadProject(DsProject _dsProject) at TimeXtender.DataManager.Project.<>c__DisplayClass136_0.<LoadProject>b__0() at TimeXtender.DataManager.ConnectingThread.ExecuteConnectingThread(Object dummy) Error loading steps for execution package Refresh PowerBI - PModule: timeXtenderTimeXtender.DataManager.ExceptionWrapperException at TimeXtender.DataManager.ConnectingThread.HandleError() at TimeXtender.DataManager.ConnectingThread.Execute(String title, Int32 progressSte

Hi I originally set up my semantic layer data models with dynamic RLS, using rules defined in a table in TX, but then switched to using a setup with manual RLS. I then removed the dynamic tables from the semantic layer and preceding data pipelines, but when I redeploy my semantic models the removed security table reappears. Any advice? TX Version: 6745.1

Hi!I have set up a REST connection in my Ingest instance to an API with multiple endpoints. The first time I misspelled two of the endpoint names, which I later changed. Then I noticed that the “old” names are still active in the ODX and does not get updated despite multiple refreshes (see attached screenshot). We have already done some work on some of the endpoints so I’m a bit reluctant to delete the whole connection and set it up again just to get these names updated. Is there some other way to fix this?

The sync of my ODX datasource returns the following error. The datasource is a REST API endpoint of the form URL/{foreign_ID}, where foreign_id is a dynamic value that comes from a different endpoint within the same data source. The option "Perform exhaustive meta data scan” is enabled. The error returned is this: Failed to read metadata from XmlDocument for endpoint X with transformation 'T'Input string was not in a correct format. There is no further information. The sync does work when I replace foreign_ID by a fixed value. The endpoint contains a field that has a lot of values that look like integers, but some values contain letters. Since the above error message is the most verbose info I’ve got, I assumed that's probably the cause. However this conflicts with my understanding of what an “exhaustive meta data scan” should do. Any help is appreciated.

Hi I have an issue whereby I get the following message when running the ‘Report / Errors’ menu option in one of my data areas. However, when I click OK I do not get any further information to help me identify the issue. Please advise what I need to do to troubleshoot this further. TimeXtender Data Integration version 6745.1 Thanks

Good Day Is there a way to be notified when a scheduled Execution Package does not run on the scheduled time? We had a scheduled package not able to run due to a lock on a table but were not aware as there was no error on the job since it was not able to start. Would like to be made aware of these issues instead of having to check each day to see if scheduled jobs ran. Kerry

Dear Community, I’m having some issues with connecting to the Azure Active Directory. We want to use this data for RLS and feed this from the DWH. I’ve set up the Active Directory Connector and put in credentials: After a minute or so I get an timeout. If I leave out the OAuth stuff I get an not authorized. What do I need to set up here to get the data from the AAD? Thanks!

Dear Comunity, I’ve got a blob folder which contains 10 JSON files. I’ve set everything up but it only gets 1 file (the first) from the blob. Also only 1 RSD files get created. Is there something in the connector that needs to change in order for the connector to get more then 1 file? Thanks in advance

Dear all, When synchronizing the mdw with the odx through right mouse click on the odx and selecting “Synchronize (...)”, the error messages as attached always show up. “Synchronize with Remapping (...)” only leads to complete removal of the field mappings in the subject tables. As there are other ways to sync the mdw with the odx, it’s still possible to work with the subject tables in the mdw. Nevertheless i wonder what causes the error messages and would like to eliminate them along with the risk of having to redo all work on the tables in a later stage.

I have a generic stored procedure that does some custom post processing based on the table that has just been reloaded (Executed). The stored procedure takes a parameter "TableName". I've created a Script Action that executes the stored procedure. I need this Script Action to run as a Post Step after the last execution step is run for one of several tables. I can create one script action per table with the tablename hardcoded, but I've got a lot of tables to work with and would really prefer do this as a parameter containing the current table name. Is the currently executing table name available in a system parameter somewhere and/or is there a way to create one that can be referenced by a script action?

Hi, We are migratring i customer from version 20 to 21. In version 20 they use a system variable to limit the amount of data loaded into certain DSA tables in the development environment.is there any way to accomplish this in V21 - setting a variable that only affects one instance? BRAnders

I have a table which loads incremental in the ODX In the datawarehouse the table is on Automatic and in simple mode.The setting to keep fields up to date is off. Will the incremental records from the ODX do inserts and updates, but update only on the fields with no transformations/lookups or will no updates be made at all when an updated existing record is retrieved from the source? As we don’t have any transformations in that part I was hoping we could skip the RAW table and that records get updated if newer versions come by.The documentation only mentions what the ‘keeping fields up to date’ does for lookup fields , transformation fields and so on, not what exactly happens when that box is not checked

Good Day We are experiencing an issue with a TX Project’s Semantic Layer Exports. For one user’s desktop install of TX they are getting the following red X’s over the exports. I have tried to re-download the Custom Components and installed the SQL and File Export items. Only the SQL Exports had the red X removed. The file exports still have them after installing the custom component. Any ideas why this is still not working?

Hi I have recently noticed a problem where some of my scheduled jobs do not run at their scheduled times. When digging about I noticed in the event viewer the following; Running the [TimeXtender Execution Server Configuration 6698.1] tool to unlink and relink the instances has not resolved the issue. Running the jobs manually work fine. Please advise on next steps

I am working with a solution that delivers 3 end points The first end-point https://data.mysystem.com/86fb92b5-ae9c Data from this end-point is aleady in the DVH id is the unique id for the attached document: { "Type": "images", "fileName": "some_file_name.pdf", "id": "3de1cef70101", "mimeType": "application/pdf" } The second end-point To reterive the document the endpoint is https://data.mysystem.com/attachment/ <id> This gives the output as ANSI %PDF-1.7%����1 0 obj<</Type/Catalog/Pages 2 0 R/>>endobj2 0 obj<</Type/Pages/Count 21/Kids[ 4 0 R 27 0 R 31 0 R 37 0 R 46 0 R 48 0 R 50 0 R 54 0 R 56 0 R 60 0 R 62] >>endobj3 0 obj<</MSIP_Label_7a2396b7-5846-48ff-8468-5f49f8ad722a_Enabled(true) /MSIP_Label_7a2396b7-5846-48ff-8468-5f49f8ad722a_SetDate(2022-10-05T08:45:49Z) /MSIP_Label_7a2396b7-5846-48ff-8468-5f49f8ad722a_Method(Standard) /MSIP_Label_7a2396b7-5846-48ff-8468-5f49f8ad722a_Name(Lav) /MSIP_Label_7a2396b7-5846-48ff-8468-5f49f8ad722a_SiteId(e6795081-6391-442e-9ab4-5e9ef74f18ea)(�� I

Hi I am trying to find a way to filter rows in ODX on multiple 'like’ expressions. Below the SQL statement i use in SQL Server Manager that i would like to implement; SELECT [autoid], [values]FROM TableAWHERE [autoid] > 61103544AND ([values] like '<N V="D%' or [values] like '<N V="VAS%') How can we achieve this in ODX so I can limit the amount of records retrieved from the source. Thanks in Advance Hans