Unable to publish large data sets - SmartPlant Foundation - IM Update 48 - Help - Hexagon

Problem

When you attempt to publish a large data set, from the Excel Publish Wizard feature or any authoring tool, you receive an "HTTP status 404: Not Found" error.

Possible Cause

This error can occur when you attempt to publish a large quantity of data that results in a request that is larger than either the maximum allowed content length or the maximum request length.

Solution

You can change the maximum values to allow larger requests using the following steps on the SmartPlant Foundation application server.

• Microsoft Windows uses these values for security, so you should not set the values higher than necessary to allow your publish requests to pass.

• You can either increase these values incrementally, continuing to test until the publish is successful, or you can set the values to a significantly higher number, such as 2Gb, and then reduce them until you find the necessary threshold.

• The smaller of the two values will override the larger of the two.

Change the value for the maximum allowed length:

1. Click Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.

2. Expand the tree in the left panel of the IIS Manager dialog box to display the SmartPlant Foundation sites, and select the site you registered your authoring tools to for integration.

3. On the Features View tab in the middle panel, double-click Request Filtering.

4. Click Edit Feature Settings in the right panel.

5. In the Edit Request Filtering Settings dialog box, increase the value for Maximum allowed content length (Bytes).

Change the value for the maximum request length:

1. Click Start > All Programs > Intergraph SmartPlant Foundation > SmartPlant Foundation Server Manager.

2. Expand the tree in the left panel to display the SmartPlant Foundation sites, and select the site you registered your authoring tools to for integration.

3. Click Settings in the tree under the site.

4. Find the value provided for the Site path property, and use Windows Explorer to open that folder.

5. Running it as an administrator, use a text editing application, such as Notepad, to open the web.config file.

6. Search for maxRequestLength in the file, and increase the value provided for that setting.

   The maxRequestLength is measured in kilobytes.