This is going to be a short blog for fixing issue I came across while working on custom pipeline creation and execution for Sitecore’s Data Exchange Framework(DEF or DxF).

The issue

While the Pipeline Batch item is selected, buttons on DATA EXCHANGE toolbar at top does not behave how they should.

Immediately after selecting pipeline item, I noticed all buttons in ribbon is visible and clickable. Secondly, clicking on Run Pipeline Batch Button does not works. I was neither starting execution of pipeline nor displaying any visible error messages. See below image for more details:

The fix

I started investigation and collecting events what could have done the damage. Found that before last deployment it was behaving the way it should be. Huuummm… that’s good hint, isn’t it? The last release just deployed files to CMS server. This is soothing to my ears as investment scope is drastically reduced to files. The content automatically gone out of equation.

To fix this, I tried install DEF SDK package first with just deploying file artifacts and skipping any content installation.

Unfortunately, that does not work ….!!! 😦

Next best bet is obvious and try to re-install the DEF framework package with deploying files only.

And that does the trick ….!!!! (Dance)

Update:

The file \App_Config\Sitecore\DataExchange\Sitecore.DataExchange.Local.config was missing. Placing this file from Package has actually fixed the issue.

Happy Data Sync and import using Sitecore Data Exchange Framework. 🙂