• Article Type: General
• Product: Alma

Problem Symptoms:
* creating import profile that would replace all existing fields except for all 035 fields
* created new merge rule adapting the syntax from the help file
* after running the profile, get message "completed with errors"; record is not updated
* input file contained one record: number of records processed 1, number of matches found 1
* no other action or error occurred

Cause:
The merge rule had a trailing space after the "end" statement. After removing this space, saving the rule, and running the import again, the merge was successful.

Resolution:
To identify and remove trailing spaces in merge rules, perform the following steps:
1) Go to Alma Menu > Resource Management > Open Metadata Editor
2) In the left-hand menu > Merge, double-click the relevant rule
3) Save (to open the drool syntax window)
4) Select all (ctrl+A) to reveal whether there are trailing spaces
5) Remove any trailing spaces
6) Save

Category: Metadata editor

Subject: Import/Loading

• Article last edited: 11/20/2013