Loading an IDAT: "attribute is missing (Message 12001)"

[Former Member]

I've been struggling to create an IDAT that creates a Reason Code in ME 6.1.4.  With Patch 21, we have a fix that enables this, but I had one last problem, which I will document here.  I will probably stumble into this in the future, as may others.

I tried to load this IDAT, which is based on the template from Service Extension Maintenance:

and I got this error message from the Reload Initial Data action in Site Maintenance:

"attribute is missing (Message 12001)"

This seems very non-specific.  Which attribute is it talking about?

The key is to realize that "attribute" is the specific name of an element in the XML.  It makes sense that the <reasoncode:customData> element, if present, requires a non-empty attribute name.

I removed the <reasoncode:customData> element.  Problem Solved!   🙂

[alexander_teslyuk]

Thank you for update, Barry!

Indeed, it is always better to remove all optional tags if they are not used to send any data.

Br, Alex.