Microsoft Connect: Most Recent Feedback - Business Platform Customer Programs

WebHCat (Templeton) behavior for multiple child MR jobs

SynergyVT

I am using WebHCat REST interface to launch remote MapReduce jobs (POST mapreduce/jar). My application (Main class specified as parameter while creating job) launches two separate MapReduce jobs, one after the other. So, there are two child jobs for the Templeton controller job. The job launch via WebHCat returns me a job ID (Job ID of the Templeton controller job), which can be used to query the status of running Job (GET queue/:jobid). The controller job completes only after the Main class r...

Status: Active, 2 Up-Votes, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 786674

IOException during reduce operation

davegmitchell

We are getting a new failure on HDInsight, whist running a pig script. The error seems to occur during the reduce operation whilst writing to BlobOutputStream. The pig script used in the job has executed successfully on other occasions, but with different underlying data.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 786096

StorageException uploading files to an East US container

davegmitchell

Hi we seem to be experiencing regular issues trying to upload files to the East US containers from our London office, using the WindowsAzure.Storage assembly (version=2.0.5.1) I don't know if this could be to do with the fact we are in the UK, or throttling of some kind, or something else. Behaviour is that small files upload okay, but larger files (e.g. 70MB or more) will fail with a StorageException error .

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 1 comment, feedback id: 785364

Potentially Missing Compression Codecs on HDInsight platform.

John Diss

We are supplied by a third party some text files compressed with gz. HDInsight cannot load some of them them unless we decompress them manually and then recompress (also as gz), but with no other changes. We have been using 7z to do the de/compression. Small files work ok and without unpacking but over a certain size they break. As supplied to us they fall into 2 clusters < 1Mb (All work)and 50Mb+ (All break) so we don't have any real visibility on where the cutoff actually arises. These sa...

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 783292

Startup package to run when a cluster is created

John Diss

As part of the cluster configuration process allow a user to select a package which might contain extra data (for instance common Jars), Applications or Services to run on the head node. Also allow firewall control to enable any ports that the applications may require. As mentioned in https://connect.microsoft.com/BusinessPlatform/feedback/details/783264/allow-remote-powershell-connectivity-to-hdinsight-head-node we are interested in automation of job scheduling on the cluster and this would en...

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 783265

Allow remote powershell connectivity to HDInsight head node.

John Diss

One of the things we are particularly interested in, is automation of jobs (particularly PIG). Our current solution is to run a CLI app on the head node that monitors an azure storage queue, however this must be manually copied up via RDP when the cluster is created which necessitates a manual step.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 783264

org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurenative.NativeAzureFileSystem throws com.microsoft.windowsazure.services.core.storage.StorageException

John Diss

while using PIG to load a gzipped tab separated file (~1.5Gb uncompressed) the job stalls and is killed. Each task produces thousands of lines of log spam : 2013-04-08 12:06:16,575 WARN org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurenative.NativeAzureFileSystem: Caught I/O exceptionjava.io.IOException before finally 2013-04-08 12:13:03,096 WARN org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurenative.NativeAzureFileSystem: Caught I/O exceptionjava.io.IOException 2013-04-08 12:13:03,299 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskLogsTruncater: I...

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 2 comments, feedback id: 783263

Apache PIG can only register Jars using local path on the head node

John Diss

from the spec "Use the REGISTER statement inside a Pig script to specify a JAR file or a Python/JavaScript module. Pig supports JAR files and modules stored in local file systems as well as remote, distributed file systems such as HDFS and Amazon S3 (see Pig Scripts)." When attempting to register a jar residing on hdfs or asv PIG throws an error e.g [main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR 101: Local file 'hdfs://namenodehost:9000/Jar/piggybank-jd.jar' does not exist.

Status: Resolved, Resolution: External, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 1 workaround, 1 comment, feedback id: 782898

TEST Big Form

Kathy MacDonald [MSFT]

This is a test for the Big Data TAP Feedback form.

Status: Resolved, Resolution: By Design, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 782788

Geolocation Information on Keywords

cromz

I'm not sure if I'm the correct site, but i wanted to know how to get the geolocation of each keyword in let say twitter or other social networks. I want to find out the location (Example: USA, Austrialia, Japan, Singapore) where the Keyword was posted. Is there a way to get this information from Social Analytics? If yes, what are the process to get the geolocation, the API documentation contains not enough information.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 738648

MessageThread property for first content item

Ian McCaul

Off of the MessageThread entity can we please get a property for the top level content item that created the message thread. Will help when walking the hierarchy.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 726432

VancouverWindows8 Dataset Dropped CalculatedToneId and ToneReliability Values

Roger Jennings

On 11/10/2011 at approximately 7:12 PM GMT, the VancouverWindows8 Dataset stopped reporting CalculatedToneId and ToneReliability Values. A screen capture of my sample OData viewer project showing the transition to no Tone info is available from SkyDrive: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=7E9D5282B93B6501&id=7E9D5282B93B6501%212083. File is attached. CalculatedToneId appeared to me to be one of Codename "Social Analytics" most important features for sentiment analysis. When will it return...

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 702514

Selecting any table in PowerPivot gives "The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden"

satya puniani

Environment: Microsoft SQL Server Code-Named “Denali”, Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP 3) version of PowerPivot API: https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Vancouver/VancouverWindows8/ I put in my account key and Test Connection succeeds. Click Next Select any table (I tried multiple times with different tables) Click on Preview and Filter or on "Finish" I get the following error: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden and I am unable to proceed. Connection String: ...

Status: Active, 4 Up-Votes, 0 Down-Votes, 3 validations, 1 workaround, 6 comments, feedback id: 699974

Unable to Add the Service Reference

Philip Richardson1

Unable to add the Service Reference for "https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Vancouver/VancouverWin8/" in Visual Studio 2010.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 1 validation, 2 workarounds, 1 comment, feedback id: 698439

Bad Link to API

Carolus.Holman

This link does not work to gain access to the Social Analytics API documentation. https://connect.microsoft.com/BusinessPlatform/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=39340

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 2 workarounds, 1 comment, feedback id: 698331

Metadata for the service is invalid

k_lord

When connecting to the Social Analytics dataset from Excel using the Windows Azure Marketplace Data Market add-in for Excel I get an error stating the following: "The metadata for the service is invalid." "Details: The entity property node for entity 'HtmlUrlHash' is invalid."

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 1 workaround, 0 comments, feedback id: 698245

Bad Link: requesting access

rrgrimm

On this page: https://connect.microsoft.com/BusinessPlatform/socialanalytics in the Getting Started section, the "requesting access" link takes you to Microsoft's home page rather than the page where you request access.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 696950

Keyword Editor: Saving after removing keywords from a domain throws cryptic error.

Esther Fan

When saving changes to a brand (removing keywords), you save and then get a cryptic error: "The following error occured: An error occurred while processing this request."

Status: Closed, Resolution: Won't Fix, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 1 comment, feedback id: 657470

Twitter Account Can't Be Added

Grant Fritchey

Attempt to add my Twitter account fails with no error message. I went to the Accounts page and selected Twitter from the Service list. I clicked Add Account. It went to the twitter page asking me if I wanted to allow access. I clicked Allow, it went to a blank page with this URL: https://yvrctp.cloudapp.net/TwitterOAuth.aspx?oauth_token=BqtuOmJ5qkyMtdiRkMz5602KGJhi4I1ZIG07SvJRjo&oauth_verifier=xdBxfz5Oj0a7WtiBcipvfnXE7yE2HqEVJqONKBEDds

Status: Closed, Resolution: Duplicate, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 1 comment, feedback id: 652553

Filters not saved

Brian Swan - MSFT

When I make a change to an exisitng filter in the Filter Editor and hit "Save", I get an error that tell me an error occured.

Status: Closed, Resolution: Not Reproducible, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 637443

Filter editor list blank

Anonymous13511

After editing a filter, the filter editor list is blank.

Status: Closed, Resolution: Not Reproducible, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 637442

Can't load keywords list

Anonymous13511

In creating a new filter, I click on the "..." button to see the keyword list. I see a splash entitled "Loading Data" with message "Reading Keywords". This lasts seemingly forever, no keywords are loaded after 6 minutes and counting.

Status: Closed, Resolution: Not Reproducible, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 637440

Can't save filter editor changes

Anonymous13511

Can't save from the filter editor, I get an error dialog box with an "OK" button: "An error occurred while saving the Filter: An error occurred while processing this request."

Status: Closed, Resolution: Not Reproducible, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 637438

Can't access base URL

Brian Swan - MSFT

When I try to access https://yvrtest.cloudapp.net/, I get an Application Error: Server Error in '/' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine...

Status: Closed, Resolution: Not Reproducible, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 637435

After add column, filter dropdown is blank

Anonymous13511

I add a column, and click on the filter dropdown to select a filter. The dropdown is empty, even after 5 minutes (and counting...).

Status: Closed, Resolution: Not Reproducible, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 637433

No data in filter until I refresh

Anonymous13511

I open the engagement client and see a column with filter TwC Hotmail. The column stays blank until I refresh.

Status: Closed, Resolution: Not Reproducible, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 637432

No data in brand filters

Brian Swan - MSFT

When I choose the SQL Azure or SQL Server brand filter for a column in the Vancouver client, I am seeing no data. I haven't tried with other brand filters.

Status: Closed, Resolution: Won't Fix, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 637166

Filter Editor - can't add multiple entries

edhickey

If you try to add multiple words in the filter editor, it will erase the first entry when you add the second entry.

Status: Closed, Resolution: Duplicate, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 630256

No breadcrumb for Filter Editor

edhickey

If you start from the Vancouver Client, then click on Filter Editor and enter a new Filter, ther eis no way to get back to the Vancouver Client from the Filter Editor.

Status: Closed, Resolution: Duplicate, 5 Up-Votes, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 629880

Data Acquisition and Dashboard values not staying visibly enabled

Bronwyn McNutt

In the Filter Editor, the Data Acquisition and Dashboard checkboxes won't stay enabled. Dirk says that he thinks this is a visual bug rather than a data bug. I.e., the values are in the database, but won't persist on the site.

Status: Closed, Resolution: Duplicate, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 629789

One should be able to add multiple keywords to a filter at a time

Bronwyn McNutt

It would be much more usable if I could add multiple keywords and then click Apply. As of now, I have to add each one separately, click Apply, watch the dialog go away, and then click ... to start the process all over again for the next keyword.

Status: Closed, Resolution: Duplicate, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 629085

Filter Editor should provide feedback when you click Save

Bronwyn McNutt

When you click Save in the Filter Editor, there's no progress indicator to let you know that something's happening.

Status: Closed, Resolution: Fixed, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 629064

Installing Vancouver as a Local App Results in an Error

Dan Jones MSFT

Attempting to install Vancouver locally on the computer results in an error. See repro steps and results. I also provided a screen shot of the error.

Status: Closed, Resolution: Fixed, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 612567

Twitter field does not allow right-click, paste

Larry Franks

When viewing the Vancouver client, there is a field to post to twitter at the top of the UI. Right clicking in this field does not display the copy/paste options expected, instead I get Silverlight properties. Keyboard shortcut (ctrl-v) works as expected

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 587801

'i' icon beside filter name in column does nothing

Larry Franks

When viewing a column of results, with the filter shown, there is a small white circle with an 'i' in it beside the filter. Hovering this displays a popup that says "Filter". Clicking it does nothing.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 587800

'X' button for column filters is incorrectly labled

Larry Franks

The 'X' button for dismissing a column filter states that it dismisses the column when you hover it.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 587796

Bad results for SQL Server Install filter

Larry Franks

The 'SQL Server Install' filter is pulling back items that don't appear to be in the SQL domain at all, like: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2847111/timeline http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3098581/timeline

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 587794

Error displayed when deleting a column

Sabotta

After deleting one of the three columns displayed, an error message is displayed. An image of the error message is attached. Repro Steps:

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 587792

Domain Editor. It is possible to close "Saving Changes" dialog mid-save.

John Mulhausen [MSFT]

Thread-safety anyone? When assigning tags, clicking "Save" brings up a modal dialog box that reads "Saving Changes." This box can be closed, leaving the user wondering what the status of their domain might indeed be. After doing so, the entire form remains greyed out.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 587628

Domain Editor: When assigning new tags to an existing domain: "An error occured"

John Mulhausen [MSFT]

I was trying to do a bulk copy-over of all the Azure-containing tags to the "Cloud" domain. Got an error when I tried to save.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 587627

Filter Editor UI "Keywords" button not fully implemented

John Mulhausen [MSFT]

The strength of the link between the Filter Editor UI and the keyword list is too weak to be of much use. With the keywords being stored in a text box after replacement, never to be re-parsed by the modal dialog box when "Keywords" is pressed again later, there is no way to incrementally improve the keyword list being used. Suggest storing selected keywords in a NON-EDITABLE display in the front end and with strongly-associated foreign key relationships in the backend so that filters can evo...

Status: Active, 2 Up-Votes, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 587626

Vancouver does not remember settings for "Auto-Shorten URLs" or "Toggle Auto-Refresh"

John Mulhausen [MSFT]

As the title says.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 1 comment, feedback id: 587625

Uncollapsed white space in Conversation column

John Mulhausen [MSFT]

When expanding a conversation to view replies, the white space can go on for several lines, where sometimes there is merely a paragraph break in the original items. Only one line of white space should be allowed within the Vancouver view regardless.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 587623

Count of "responses" does not match number of shown thread replies

John Mulhausen [MSFT]

At the top of the "Conversation Summary" column, the counts given for the number of thread responses isn't always born out by scrolling down into the column itself. This could be a side-bug of one I previously entered relating to duplicates being displayed -- as in the example cited here the summary count at the top of the column is correct and there are duplicate replies being rendered in the lower part of the column. But as the disconnect between the number of replies being shown and those bei...

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 1 comment, feedback id: 587622

Conversation sub-items still can launch new conversation columns

John Mulhausen [MSFT]

You should not be able to generate a new Conversation Summary column from within a Conversation Summary column.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 1 comment, feedback id: 587621

Forum posts duplicating themselves

John Mulhausen [MSFT]

More posts appear to be showing up in Vancouver 0.9 than are actually in the original websites. This post uses the following conversation from StackOverflow to illustrate this bug: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3471037/answers

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 1 comment, feedback id: 587619

Can open multiple "Conversation Summary" Columns from same conversation

John Mulhausen [MSFT]

You can really muck up your Vancouver UI (not to mention kick off a bunch of redundant server activity) by just clicking the "caption" icon to launch a Conversation Summary column multiple times. The columns are fully live and periodically say "loading" For 0.9

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 587616

Removing all columns throws exception

Bronwyn McNutt

If you have three or more columns open, and you close them all, Vancouver throws an exception. Just having one or two columns up and then closed doesn't throw. [Arg_NullReferenceException] Arguments: Debugging resource strings are unavailable. Often the key and arguments provide sufficient information to diagnose the problem. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=106663&Version=4.0.50524.0&File=mscorlib.dll&Key=Arg_NullReferenceException at Microsoft.Vancouver.Silverlight.Common...

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 1 comment, feedback id: 587599

Filters are reproducing

Bronwyn McNutt

Somehow, we ended up with copies of filters. They show up in both the dropdown and the filter editor.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 587591

Retweets showing up with empty content bodies

Bronwyn McNutt

Content bodies are empty for retweets that are retweeted with the retweet button (jeebus) such that they look as if they're posted from the original tweeter. [Edit] And you can't expand the item, so you can't see the conversation summary.

Status: Active, 1 Up-Vote, 0 Down-Votes, 0 validations, 0 workarounds, 0 comments, feedback id: 587585