Published at October 27th, 2025 • Last updated 7 days ago

Bulk Import Error: classifiedSources.classifiedSourceId

What

When using the Bulk import to add data through XML, you get a error like this: "?classifiedSources.classifiedSourceId?
This can happen on Applications, Awards and Projects. The examples in this article is for Awards.

Job log
ERROR: Got exception creating content
----------------- Validation error -----------------
???classifiedSources.classifiedSourceId??? is required
Exception details
Validation of content 'Award(id=<null>, shortTitle=<null>, title=Child Obesity Intervention)' failed:
Validation errors:
classifiedSources[1].classifiedSourceId: ValidationResult [code=validation.text.defined, args=null, nestedProperty=null, value=], propertyPath: classifiedSources[1].classifiedSourceId

How

This error means that a value is missing in the id field in your XML, i.e.

  • Wrong format - value missing:
<v3:id type="awd"/>
  • Correct format - contains value:
<v3:id type="awd">23-08-1</v3:id>

Another way to show the correct way would be:

<v1:ids>
 <v3:id type="agresso" id="internal_id_used_for_matching_when_updating_the_id_in_pure">the_actual_agresso_id</v3:id>
</v1:ids>

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