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"Quick" may not be the right word, so this is a somewhat summarized article on how to get data out of SITS, up to running the monitors and populating an OUTPUT table in the SITS database. Note that this does not include steps thereafter in the Staging or Target destination which will be specific to your business requir...
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An article on how to declare an XML element as NULL using the attribute "xsi:nil". I'm going to use a very short example by providing a blank date of birth value: -- What I have: // -- What I want:
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XSD Elements Element Explanation all Specifies that the child elements can appear in any order. Each child element can occur 0 or 1 time annotation Specifies the top-level element for schema comments any Enables the author to extend the XML document with elements not specified by the schema anyAttribute Enables the aut...
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You might be able to work it out from the online manuals but it took me a while, we wanted to bring back both the code and the lookup value in our XML to our Staging environment.
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Trying to export a STU record but I want to use the XET template I created rather than the pre-installed XML export formats. When I try to export using data format XET, the system has never heard of it.
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