Description

Creates a new Populated Template.

By default this will:

Validate all xml files,
Merge descriptor files,
Create the manifest file required by the bulk loader
Create all the databases needed to create and load data into the template (empty, bulkLoadOds, bulk, and populated databases)
Load data into the populated template database using the bulk loader
Create a backup of the populated template database
Create a nuspec template

Initialize-PopulatedTemplate Aliases

Initialize-PopulatedTemplate [[-samplePath] <String>] [-noExtensions] [-noValidation] [[-bulkRetryCount] <Int16>]
[<CommonParameters>]

Name	Description	Required?	Pipeline Input	Default Value
-samplePath	An absolute path to the folder to load samples from, for example: C:\MySampleXmlData\. Also supports specific version folders of the Data Standard repository, for example: C:\Ed-Fi-Standard\v3.0\ or C:\Ed-Fi-Standard\v2.0\	false	false
-noExtensions	Ignores any extension sources when running the sql scripts against the database.	false	false	False
-noValidation	Disables xml validation.	false	false	False
-bulkRetryCount	The number of additional times to call the bulk loader to attempt to work around multi threading race conditions described in https://tracker.ed-fi.org/browse/ODS-2096	false	false	1

EXAMPLE 1

Initialize-PopulatedTempalte -samplePath "C:\edfi\Ed-Fi-Standard\v3.1\"