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EnterWorks Tech Talk: "ETT 188 - Reconfiguring Scheduled Imports to Handle Change in Error Status Behavior" Published on Precisely University

Posted By Brian Zupke 03-19-2026 01:43
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Version 11.3 included a significant change to scheduled import job behavior: imports are now reported as failed if any individual record fails. While this improves error visibility, it introduces unintended side effects for scheduled and dependent jobs, including premature termination of file processing ...

EnterWorks Data Model/EPX Compare Extract Scripts have been updated

Posted By Brian Zupke 03-08-2026 19:48
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The EnterWorks compare extract scripts have been updated to include data model changes introduced in recent versions. The compare scripts are an essential tool for creating and maintaining an EnterWorks implementation. The Knowledge Base article How to Compare the EnterWorks data models or EPX for differences ...

EnterWorks version 11.3 requires RabbitMQ maximum message size to be set

Posted By Brian Zupke 03-08-2026 06:25
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EnterWorks version 11.3 includes RabbitMQ version 4, which has lowered the default maximum message size from 128 MB to 16 MB. Some EnterWorks processing, including the uploading of Digital Assets assumes the maximum message size is 128 MB. If the default size of 16 MB is used, DAM Upload jobs containing ...

EnterWorks Tech Talk: "ETT 187 - EnterWorks Export Data Model Metadata REST APIs" Published on Precisely University

Posted By Brian Zupke 03-05-2026 19:34
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The EnterWorks REST API provides numerous endpoints for accessing metadata from the EnterWorks Data Model. Starting with version 11.3, EnterWorks now provides a secure, read-only REST API that enables external systems to retrieve metadata definitions (in their entirety) and configuration objects from ...

RE: Auto Generated UUID as Primary Key

Posted By Brian Zupke 02-09-2026 19:02
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Matthew, There is NOT a native functional capability to populate a Primary Key attribute with a UUID upon creation of a record. Your alternative choices are: Implement a VTL rule (the Apache Velocity String tool has a generateUUID method and the java.util.UUID class should be accessible. Keep in ...

EnterWorks Tech Talk: "ETT 186 - Using Validation Levels for EnterWorks Repositories" Published on Precisely University

Posted By Brian Zupke 01-22-2026 21:05
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Validation in EnterWorks is a cornerstone for maintaining high-quality data across the entire enterprise system. The platform's robust validation engine ensures compliance with business rules, verifying that all incoming or modified data meets the required standards before it is eligible for syndication. ...

EnterWorks Tech Talk: "ETT 185 - Creating a Minimal Saved Set for Scheduled Promotion of Valid Records" Published on Precisely University

Posted By Brian Zupke 01-22-2026 21:04
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The EnterWorks Scheduled Promotion lacks detailed options for promoting only the specific records that need to be promoted. This can lead to longer promotion jobs, which may cause issues when multiple repositories are promoted frequently. Assuming the records to be promoted have already been validated, ...

RE: Feature Request: Reintroduce Excel-Like Layout Option in Enterworks 11.3

Posted By Brian Zupke 11-04-2025 16:51
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Micah, The Precisely Ideas website (https://ideas.precisely.com/ideas/) is a more suitable venue for this request, as it enables other customers and partners to vote on each submitted idea. It may also be worthwhile to peruse the EnterWorks submissions on that site and provide feedback on any that ...

RE: Change Notification PreSave Validation

Posted By Brian Zupke 08-17-2025 15:57
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Matthew, I have submitted the following to update the product documentation regarding PreSave Change Notification. If you have any more questions, please let me know. The Change Notification functionality can be invoked using a PreSave Validation rule instead of from the Change Notification Trigger ...

EW_PurgeHistoryRecords stored procedure updated to support comma-delimited list of repositories

Posted By Brian Zupke 08-12-2025 15:12
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The stored procedure EW_PurgeHistoryRecords provided in the EnterWorks Tech Talk: "ETT 149 - How to Clean Up History Records for Scheduled Job Repositories Using SQL" has been updated to accept a comma-delimited list of repositories in addition to wildcards. This eliminated the need to define separate ...

EnterWorks Tech Talk: "ETT 182 - Generic Record Preview Templates" Published on Precisely University

Posted By Brian Zupke 06-30-2025 13:31
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EnterWorks has a repository record preview option that displays a thumbnail image (if configured), the summary attributes, and a set of selected attributes in a compact form. Prior to version 11.2 the only configurable portions of the preview are the defined summary attributes and the selected user preference. ...

EnterWorks Tech Talk: "ETT 181 - Detecting, Reporting and Resolving Orphaned Scheduled Jobs" Published on Precisely University

Posted By Brian Zupke 06-21-2025 03:03
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Under rare circumstances, a Scheduled Export, Import, or Promotion may show a status of Processing in the corresponding Jobs repository without there being a work item in the corresponding EPX workflow doing the actual work for this job. When this occurs, the job will remain in the Processing state indefinitely ...

EnterWorks Tech Talk: "ETT 161 - Cleaning up Expired Repository Records Using SQL and Scheduled Export" Published on Precisely University

Posted By Brian Zupke 06-06-2025 18:47
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Some EnterWorks repositories contain log information, such as the Change Notification Log (CN_Log) repository. These repositories tend to grow over time. EnterWorks does not have an automatic cleanup or purge operation that will remove the oldest records from these repositories. If left unchecked, the ...

EnterWorks Tech Talk: "ETT 180 - Using Change Notification on Code Set, Taxonomy, and Hierarchy Changes" Published on Precisely University

Posted By Brian Zupke 05-10-2025 18:39
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For some Code Sets, Taxonomies, and Hierarchies, it is desirable to be able to monitor them for changes and take actions such as sending notification e-mails or launching workflows. The Change Notification functionality operates on changes made to repository records. It cannot operate directly on changes ...

EnterWorks Tech Talk: "ETT 179 - Performing a direct mass-rollback of EnterWorks repository records using SQL" Published on Precisely University

Posted By Brian Zupke 05-10-2025 18:38
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Every time a change is made to a repository record, the repository item history table is updated with the previous values for the record. These previous values can be viewed by examining the history for the record. Erroneous changes can be rolled back from a previous version of that record, provided ...

EnterWorks Tech Talk: "ETT 178 - Logging invocation of EnterWorks stop and start scripts" Published on Precisely University

Posted By Brian Zupke 04-14-2025 16:19
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When troubleshooting issues with the EnterWorks application, it is often important to know how and when the services have been stopped and/or started and by whom. While it is usually possible to determine when some or all of the EnterWorks services have been stopped or started by examining the log files, ...

RE: Changing exported file name when using Syndication templates

Posted By Brian Zupke 04-03-2025 13:57
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Joseph, While the UI allows some control over the file name under the advanced options when launching the Syndication Template export, the file name will still include "publish _ before the name tat was entered. There is nothing that can be specified in the Syndication Template itself to affect the ...

RE: Archiving Old records from a Repository

Posted By Brian Zupke 04-02-2025 17:29
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Bighnajit, As you may have seen by the announcement, the EnterWorks Tech Talk covering archiving repository records has been posted to the Precisely University. ------------------------------ Brian Zupke Precisely Software Inc. ------------------------------

EnterWorks Tech Talk: "ETT 177 - Archiving Repository Records with History" Published on Precisely University

Posted By Brian Zupke 04-02-2025 17:28
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In some EnterWorks environments, there is a desire to remove records from a repository once they are no longer needed but retain them for historical or archival purposes. EnterWorks does not provide a native capability for archiving records. One option is to set a flag in a record to indicate that it ...

EnterWorks Tech Talk: "ETT 176 - Finding Bad Decimal Attribute Values Using SQL" Published on Precisely University

Posted By Brian Zupke 04-01-2025 18:42
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EnterWorks uses a snapshot table for each repository to store a subset of the repository's attribute data in a relational format. This improves performance during searches, sorting, and displaying data. However, there are instances when one or more records in the repository do not have a corresponding ...