More than 7 decimal places in a number.
SQL Server MDS seems to limit you to 7 decimal places in numeric values. Does anyone know if this is configurable somewhere? We need at least nine decimals in some of our numbers.
View ArticleHow to load only filtered members to MDS Web UI
Hi Is there a way to add filter to the URL to load filtered data from MDS entity to the MDS Web UI?For example, I know we could do that for a single member with Code = 86 by using the following...
View ArticleMDS Business Rule Question
Hi All,Consider an entity as follows:CodeNameLegacyYNABC25% due 30 daysNE50% due 45 daysYFGH100% due 30 daysNAB1225% due 30 daysNZZ50% due 45 daysYI am trying to implement a business rule using the MDS...
View ArticleMS MDS-Numeric datatype.
Does Master data services, round off by default after 15 digits, if yes then what is the way to overcome it.
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MDS 2012 Web Exception Error [HttpWebRequest_WebException_RemoteServer] When...
After installing SQL Server 2012 Developer Edition with MDS on Windows 2008 R2 and setting up and configuring MDS, I can authenticate to the site and perform other functions, however I receive the...
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 ArticleHard Delete all soft delete records (members) in Master Data Service (MDS)...
Hi,I am using Master Data Service for couple of months now. I can load, update, merge and soft delete data in MDS. Occasionally we even have to hard delete data from MDS. If we keep on soft deleting...
View ArticleMDS 2012 Excel Add-in show only details for the first 100 validationerrors
Hi.I would like to view the complete validation result through the Excel add-in, but there seems to be a limitation i can't get around. When i open one entity (that have > 100 validation errors), I...
View ArticleGet soft-deleted records using subscription views
Hi,We need to maintain a dimension(master data table) in MDS and sync the master data changes daily to the datawarehouse. We have enabled subscription views for this and we check the LastChgDateTime to...
View ArticleIssue in modifying 'Attribute Properties' using MDS Excel Addin
Hi,I need to modify the length of an attribute of Data Type 'Text' in an MDS entity. While I have been able to do that for other entities using MDS Excel Addin, for one particular entity, this is not...
View ArticleBusiness Rule to block input for all attributes of a member if one attribute...
Hi,there's a Entity "Transactions" with > 200 Members theres a Attribute Transactions.isCurrent with possible value 1 or 0When for a member the attribute isCurrent=0 i want prevent the users to...
View ArticleSecurity on domain entities
Hello,I have some questions about security, which I can not seem to implement the way I would like: to hide the domain entities in the Entities list. In my Services model I have quite a number of...
View ArticleRow level Security for Entity
Hi,I am using SQL Server 2012 SP1 Master data services. How can I establish row level security for a entity?Thanks,Sambath
View ArticleUsing MDS Add In for Excel, how do I run Excel 2010 using Run As
I am just starting to use MDS and want to use Excel 2010 with the MDS Add In. I am trying to establish a connection with a MDS server in a different domain. I found a question posted in May 2012 that...
View ArticleLoading an entity with reference data from another entity
I have many different entities that all revolve around a main product entity. The main product entity has several useful attributes that users want to see but should not be able to edit. I can add the...
View ArticleBest practice for "triggered" processes in MDS 2012
When a user has validated an entity I would like to kick off a stored procedure. In the business rules section there is the ability to trigger a workflow but no ability to select an SP or run a job.I...
View ArticleHow to improve the MDS delete performance using staging
Hi,I have tried to delete members from MDS entities. Using all Importtype (3,4,5,6). I have also enabled and disable logging using the logflag. But the delete is taking too long. One record is taking...
View ArticleAttribute insert but not update -- MDS 2012
I need to be able to allow users to add a new entity record and change the value of an attribute from the default value only once and then disallow further updates to that attribute in that record.How...
View ArticleMDS Action -- Discard changes?
When a record fails validation, the default setting is to keep the changes. If you are using MDS for reference data and someone tries to make an invalid change and they don't remember what the previous...
View ArticleManaging explicit hierarchies
I use explicit hierarchy for consolidation data, so 2 levels, the consolidated list contains national standard data, the leaf list contains local mess from various systems. The structure of explicit...
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