Batch Syndicating

[Former Member]

Hello everybody:

Now that I have imported, consolidated and syndicated manually, I'd like to automatize this last step by bath syndicating. I have the BatchSyndicator and I invoke it this way:

SyndicatorBatch -f Employees1.xml -s SARAH -p 2345 -u admin -n SyndicationFile1

As you can see the Admin user has no password 😃 it's just for demo purposes so it's ok for me, but I don't know it this has anything to do with this error message that I get:

Syndication error.

(-101) Incorrect paramenters. Specify the '-h' option for usage information.

I also seem to be missing other parameters such as the name of the agency, but for the help I get by typing BachSyndicator -h they don't seem to be required.

Does anyone know what seems to be the problem?

Thanks in advance

Alejandro

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You have omitted the –a parameter, which stand for the name of the client system.

In order to execute a syndication map, you have to specify a client system otherwise the syndicator doesn’t know which map to execute.

These two parameters are coupled together.

Regards,

Ronen

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello:

Thanks for the response. You say -a stands for the client system, you mean the Agency right? Now that error has gone and I get:

(-201) General connection error.

I could guess there's something about the login information I'm giving, is it a problem that I don't have a -w parameter as for password? if my password is blank how should I put it? I've checked and the port, server, user and Syndication file are ok

Thanks!

Alejandro

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Alejandro

Using the updated terminology, agency where renamed in

SP2 and are called Client System.

The password is not mandatory. if it is not set the parameter should be omitted.

First make sure that the repository is up and running,

try to logon using the Syndicator UI, and use the same connection information for the batch mode.

Second, the parameters: -s -p -u must be set in order to establish connection, if it still does not work for you append the –r parameter for login language.

Regards,

Ronen

Message was edited by: Ronen Cohen

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello:

Thanks for the clarification about naming =). On the other hand, I can't get it to connect yet. This is how I write the command:

SyndicatorBatch -s SARAH -p 2345 -u admin -n SyndicationFile1 -a DataSourceMDM -f Employees1.xml

The order of the parameters seems to be ok, and I've checked the repository is up and running. Just to clarify, the server, port and user are from the MDM server, not the SQL server right? are names case sensitive?

The repository name doesn't seem to be necessary, I guess MDM knows by the port number right?

Thanks a lot for your help

Alejandro

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

As Ronen suggested include the -r option for the language - but be careful with the syntax, since the sample syntax in the help ( -h option) will not work (instead of 'English [US]' try "English [US]" ). (also the -a option if you noticed is missing in the sample command line help - this help will probably be corrected in future releases).

Kevin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello

Thanks for your replies... Again, this is my exact syntax:

SyndicatorBatch -f Employees1.xml -s SARAH -p 2345 -u admin -a DataSourceMDM -n SyndicationFile1 -r "English [US]"

I did leave a blank between English and [US], since I had that problem when trying to connect to MDM by Java API. but I keep getting this error

(-201) General connection error.

Mmm if I change the port number (for something like 234234) the error changes too, saying the parameters are not correct. This leads me to think that It's kinda connecting but for some reason the actual connection is refused.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Your observations are correct user is case sensitive if you define it with capital “A”, this is how you should write it in the batch mode.

Regards,

Ronen

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Everyone

I've pass all the errors and it seems to be connecting... but now it stays there, frozen, I was wondering, if as the -n parameter indicating the syndication to be completed, should I reference any saved syndication inside MDM syndicator, or I should explort it as a -syn file and use that file as my -n parameter.

Thanks for your help

Alejandro

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

SyndicatorBatch

-f Employees1.xml (Name of the export file)

-s SARAH (Name of the MDS Server where the repository is loaded)

-p 2345 (Port number for the loaded repository)

-u admin (User name for logging into the repository -- case sensitive)

-a DataSourceMDM (Name of the client system --agency)

-n SyndicationFile1 (Name of the syndication map stored in the repository to be executed)

-r "English [US]" (language --optional)

Hope this helps,

Ronen

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

hey

thanks it did work... it says "Syndication Complete" however, I've learned that the -f parameter, the filename, should be a dir somewhere in the pc, I mean, not just Employees.xml, but c:\Employees.xml for instance.

Thanks everyone!

Alejandro

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hey Alejandro,

Usually if you don’t specify a full path the export file will be created in the same folder from which you executed the batch,

Please check it out.

Ronen