Transient Abbreviation in Buildings And Rooms #200
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The Error is generated when importing the following XML file, I have tried quite a lot of things but id does not seem to work for me. Can Somebody tell me what I am doing wrong? |
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tomas-muller
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The error would show if there were a Try to remove the The following file was imported into our Online Demo without any issues: I have
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I Tried what you suggested, the problem is that it shoes the export is done perfectly but I cannot see the buildings or the rooms in the GUI. With some more digging up I found out that the rooms & buildings are exported in the external_building and the external_room database tables instead of the building and rooms table. I tried removing the external ID from the XML still the same result. Though I don't know the internal working, but the rooms and buildings are not visible in GUI in my case. |
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This format, when imported, only updates the external buildings and rooms (no rooms are changed directly via the import as this import is expected to be done periodically from an inventory system). To update the actual rooms, one has to click the Update Data button on the Administration > Academic Sessions > Buildings page. By default, the update only creates rooms that do not exist in the academic session yet (ignoring the rest). There are a few properties that can modify this behavior, namely:
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The error would show if there were a
buildingelement in the XML file without anabbreviationattribute or with an emptyabbreviation.Try to remove the
<script src="..."/>element on line 2. The import assumes that all elements within thebuildingsRoomselements arebuildingelements.The following file was imported into our Online Demo without any issues: