Real time sync of MDS with custom databases
What I understand out of MDS is that it's a listing of your mission critical data in a single place. I create a model called "Clients", then I create an entity called "MXClients". This entity contains...
View ArticleDomain-Based attribute display mode
Hi I am learning the MDS 2012 and when I was checking the ProductSample model, I noticed some of the defined domain-based attributes like country inside the product entity is displayed as textbox with...
View ArticleMDS 2012 custom workflow dll rule doesn't work from Excel add-in
Hi,I have a custom workflow dll that is configured to be called through a business rule on a condition based on member attributes being blank. The rule executes fine when the changes to the attributes...
View ArticleBug/limitation in Business Rules and Domain Based Attribute
I have read the other threads related to business rules and DBA's and yet it seems that this is distinct case. I believe that combining a rule "Defaults to" / "Defaults to concatenated value" and "Is...
View ArticleExcel Add-in & NULLs
Is there a value you can use in the Excel Add-in to load a NULL value? Some user are just using copy and paste to update information in excel. When an attribute is blank and the information is...
View ArticleEnd to end create model using MDS API
Please can someone supply an end to end example of using the MDS API to create a model, entity and attributes on the entity? I'd like particularly to also see how to create relationships between...
View ArticleTrack change business rule issue
Hi there, We are intending to use the Change Tracking feature within MDS to trigger external workflows. To test this functionality, we’ve altered an attribute in an existing entity and defined a...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 - MDS error
Hi All,I am using Windows Server 2008R2 with SQL Server 2012 installed, after configuring MDS when adding for the user groups i am getting the below error, can any one suggest on this. Server Error...
View ArticleFeature Requests
In the Excel Add in for MDS it would be very helpful to have the ability to filter based on last change date. I've had users accidentally commit changes they didn't want to commit and had trouble...
View ArticleIs it possible to display an image (.jpeg, .bmp, .tif, .png, etc) in a leat...
I have a product entity. One of the attributes is an image of the product. The user would like to see the picture displayed in either the excel (with the MDS addin), or in the "Out-of-the-box" Web...
View ArticleThe Problem : When create member in MDS ,but createtime is UTC time
Problem description： We have a entity in MDS .When add a member in entity , actually in MDSDB the data creatime is UTC time , not dbserver Systemtime 。It's Same as Udpate the member. We...
View ArticleMDS Excel plugin won't push changes
I'm having trouble finding any information on how to debug this. We have been using the Excel add-in to allow data stewards to administer the MDS entities, and ordinarily this functions fine, but...
View ArticleMDSERR400038|Unpublished business rules exist. Apply the business rules...
Hi,I am getting the following error (in MDSTrace.log) when I click on 'Apply Rules'. MDS Error: 0 : Service started successfully, Assembly version: 11.0.0.0, file version: 11.0.3368.0...
View ArticleMDS 2012 Transactions not logged using MDS Staging process through SSIS
I noticed that the changes to the member attributes from Explorer UI or MDS Excel add-in can be viewed through “View Transactions”. However, if the changes are done through SSIS package using MDS...
View ArticleHOW TO FORMAT AND SET-UP TO IMPORT ASCII CALIF CORP FILE BY CALIF SECRETARY...
Dear Sir:I purchased a California Corporation file (3 Million records) from California Secretary of State. It is a ASCII format. I used a column import with fixed width (SQL Server). I formated based...
View ArticleHOW TO FORMAT AND SET-UP TO IMPORT ASCII CALIF CORP FILE BY CALIF SECRETARY...
Dear Sir:I purchased a California Corporation file (3 Million records) from California Secretary of State. It is a ASCII format. I used a column import with fixed width (SQL Server). I formated based...
View ArticleHOW TO FORMAT AND SET-UP TO IMPORT ASCII CALIF CORP FILE BY CALIF SECRETARY...
Dear Sir:I purchased a California Corporation file (3 Million records) from California Secretary of State. It is a ASCII format. I used a column import with fixed width (SQL Server). I formated based...
View ArticleMaster Data Service: how to remove the dirty data from master data service...
hello, we need to remove the dirty data from MDS, but we found we can only do this from MDS web, and we need to do this by store procedure to make this process automatically. is there any easy method...
View ArticleSelectively mark Excel columns in MDS as Read-Only
Is there an internally supported feature in MDS 2012 Excel add-in wherein we can set some columns (e.g Code column) as Read-Only? The use case we're trying to evaluate is to not allow users to make...
View ArticleCompatability issue with MDS Deployment Tool
I have been using MDS 2012 for nearly a year now. Recently I was asked to test out MDS's integration with MS SharePoint workflows.Following the instructions documented at...
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