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Friday, October 19th 2007, 11:30am

Data Import examples manual page 161 et

Hello,

I'm newbie and just startet with the Palo manual. But I have some trouble with the Data Import examples page 161 et.

After performing the data import with the Import-Assitent, the database is empty, without any error Messages. The Logfile is also empty.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for helping.

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Friday, October 19th 2007, 11:32am

ps. my palo version is 2.0

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Friday, October 19th 2007, 12:56pm

Did you place the PALO.SETDATA Formula as described on pages 64 ff.?

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Friday, October 19th 2007, 2:44pm

exactly as on page 164 ff.described:

=PALO.SETDATA($F$1;FALSCH;"localhost/Demo";"Market";$D$2;$C$1;$A$1;$E$2;"Units";$B$1)

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Friday, October 19th 2007, 2:58pm

What does it returns when you go through step by step in the import dialog?

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Friday, October 19th 2007, 3:13pm

only the data in line 1 from start to finish without any message

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Friday, October 19th 2007, 4:07pm

Make sure to enable screenupdating in the import dialog. Then click on NEXT instead of FINISH. If there is something written by your PALO.SETDATA Formula you will see the value that is written in the formula cell. If there is an error (unknown elements e.g.) in your PALO.SETDATA it will return something like #NV. Did you seee something like this?

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Friday, October 19th 2007, 4:16pm

no, there is no unknown value like #NV or similar. I've checked this several times.

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Monday, October 22nd 2007, 8:05am

Can you see the value you like to write in the PALO.SETDATA Cell?

Perhaps someone else got an idea?

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Monday, October 22nd 2007, 10:12am

no, there not Data in the PALO.SETDATA Cell. Is this the problem?

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Monday, October 22nd 2007, 2:59pm

Then there must be an error in your PALO.SETDATA formula because usually you see the value that is written. Can you attach a screenshot with cellfocus on PALO.SETDATA Cell during import process? That would help.

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Monday, October 22nd 2007, 4:19pm

Screenshot is attached. thank you for help!
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Monday, October 22nd 2007, 4:27pm

So your Cube "Market" (which must already exist) should have the following dimensions in that order:

Months
Years
Regions
Datatypes
Measures
Products

Is that right?

Did you try to execute one single PALO.SETDATA with hardcoded element names (recalc with F9) ? What happens then? Maybe its an excel autoformatting issue e.g. 2002 instead of "2002"...

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Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 9:26am

The dimensions exist in that order.
what do you mean exactly with "hardcoded element names"? Do how I do this?

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Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 9:37am

For example enter the following Formula in a cell of your choice, press enter and recalc by pressing F9):

=PALO.SETDATA(4711;FALSCH;"localhost/Demo";"Market";"Apr";"2002";"Austria";"Actual";"Untis";"Notebook SX")

Writing it to the original Sales cube would look like this:
=PALO.SETDATA(4711;FALSCH;"localhost/Demo";"Sales";"Notebook SX";"Austria";"Apr";"2002";"Actual";"Units")


After that you should see the value 4711 in this cell and the value should have been written to PALO.

Maybe you should activate Excel Auto-Calculation in Options-Menu before importing with the wizard....

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Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 10:26am

This has functioned. The value has been written to Palo.

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Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 12:06pm

Nice to hear. So check your calculation options in excel (turn it to automaically) and the formatting of the cells you reference when using the wizard.

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Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 1:50pm

Unfortunately, it does not function. I can't see furthermore no Data in the PALO.SETDATA Cell... sorry

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Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 2:12pm

Okay,
so here is my last idea before suggesting to reinstall the client :-) but I hope thats it:

As i can imagine (from your screenshot) you write the value in Cell G1. If this is a formula that says like "=F1" its possible that excel hasn't calculated it yet at the time the PALO.SETDAZA is fired. Try to use F1 in you PALO.SETDATA formulaand E1 instead of E2.



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Wednesday, October 24th 2007, 3:30pm

Functioned, unfortunately, also not.
I' ll try to reinstall Palo, otherwise i'll look for another BI-Tool.
Many thanks for your help!!!

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