Errors With HP Digital Front End JDF Control

[rgpepper]

Trying to use this configurator, getting these errors (for a single job), in this order:

File extension ".xml" is not a supported file type.
Fail method for job 'Generate JDF5January2017182441.xml' has been already invoked
Job 'Generate JDF5January2017182441.xml' was already failed; can't send failed job
Job '_01VQW_Generate JDF5January2017182441.xml' was moved from folder 'C:/Users/cgcadmin/AppData/Roaming/Enfocus/Switch Server/backing/Create JDF/automanaged/Folder 3' to the problem jobs folder. Reason: see previous log message(s)

I'm sending an XML file from a Connector, so in regards to the first error, it's obviously referring to some other XML file (read on). Before these errors I was getting errors concerning the data contained in the XML file. So I know it's reading the input file. Another bit of nonsense is that the date format the Connector generates (YYYY-MM-DD) isn't compatible with the date format the configurator expects, and the Yes/No dropdown list option actually generates boolean values and the configurator doesn't like boolean for the duplexing option so I resorted to a drop-down list making "Yes" and "No" the choices so it would pass along my literal text rather than subbing a boolean.

[cstevens]

What version of the configurator are you running? I don't think XML was a supported until version 8.

[cstevens]

Regarding the other issues. I'm basing my responses on this simple XML file:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<XML>
   <JobName>My Job Name</JobName>
   <JobDetails Quantity="200" Priority="Low" DueDate="2017-01-20"/>
   <AssetFileLocation>http://localhost/prodflow/tests/assets/static/simple8.pdf</AssetFileLocation>
   <CustomerInformation>
      <CustomerID>ID - 12345</CustomerID>
	  <CustomerName>Acme</CustomerName>
   </CustomerInformation>
</XML>

If you're pulling a file URL from the XML file you need to set up an XML pickup where "Metadata is asset" then set the configurator properties up like this:

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• "Asset file location" is only used when the asset file is the input to the configurator, so you can set that to any value
• "Asset location URL" needs to be the metadata path to the URL in the XML file.
• "File move method" should be set to "Asset referenced (don't copy) so the configurator doesn't try to copy the file from the location defined in "Asset file location"

If you don't set it up this way then the configurator thinks that the incoming XML is the asset file and will try to add it to the JDF which isn't valid and is probably the cause of the error message you're seeing.

JDF requires an ISO 8601 timestamp format (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sss)
You can probably resolve the date issue by setting the Due date to "Select from calendar", then setting the Due date to "Single-line text with variables defined" and adding an extension "T17:00:00.000" (or whatever time of day you want jobs to be due) after your variable like this:

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[rgpepper]

This is my due date expression:

[Metadata.Text:Path="/field-list/field[3]/value",Dataset="Submit",Model="XML"]T[Metadata.Text:Path="/field-list/field[4]/value",Dataset="Submit",Model="XML"]:00.000

I hard-coded the 00.000 since that wasn't provided by the connector, and really doesn't matter.

And in Switch it shows that this is the resulting value:
2017-01-12T14:33:00.000
which matches the format you specified, but it's still complaining that the dueDateMethod has an invalid value.

??

[cstevens]

Are you putting that value in the "Select from calendar" field?

Can you post a picture of your configurator settings in this area?

Also, what version of the configurator are you running?

[rgpepper]

v10 of the configurator.

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[cstevens]

The v10 release of the Configurator I have doesn't allow "Single-line text with variables defined" as a setting for Due date method. I'm wondering if this is part of the issue. Can you set that to "Select from calendar" as shown below?

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I'm also concerned that the configurator didn't get updated to version 10 properly since this setting is not constrained. Version 10 is only available for Switch 13 and later. Are you possibly running 12r3 or earlier?

[rgpepper]

Switch v13 update 1.

The configuration did behave strangely, when I selected "Single-line text with variables defined" from the "Due date method" menu, it gave me the dialog to set it up as expected, then it put "Single-line text with variables defined" in the "Due-date" field too. See screen shot for configurator version info.