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paulpascha
Bronze Contributor
Apr 19, 2018

Inconsistent behavior in using Taxonomy API

We're currently developing a solution that involves several types of Taxonomy operations:   Loading Terms  Creating Terms (if not exist)  Creating Term Labels (if not exist) Reusing Terms (if n...
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Tom Castiglia
Iron Contributor
Jun 05, 2018

Hi Paul -

I'm curious if you've made progress on this this.  I am also seeing the error: 

The HTTP service located at http://usr19769-643:32843/3115c78f4d804003b5964d1cb5b56042/MetadataWebService.svc is unavailable

 

In my case, I was using PnP PowerShell (Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate) to deploy new Managed Metadata fields and anchor them to an existing term set.  I was running this after creating a new site.  I added a Sleep for 120 seconds after site creation and before applying the template.  I still saw this error.  Then I set it to sleep for 180 seconds and I did not see the error.  I need to do more testing to see if 180 seconds is sufficient in all cases or if I'll need to implement retries as you have done.

 

Regards,

Tom Castiglia

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    Merly Cortez
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 17, 2018

    Hi Tom,

     

    Having the sleep for 180 seconds fixed it for me too. Have you found any other way to get this working other than putting in some delay?

     

    Thank you.

  • paulpascha's avatar
    paulpascha
    Bronze Contributor
    Jun 05, 2018

    Hi Tom,

     

     

    No real progress regarding this on my side. My code is full of retry-mechanisms (basically try-catch-retry) to work around the errors I've listed and the end-results are fine now…

     

    Hope your workaround suffices too!

     

     

    Regards,

    Paul

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