Description
Context
Currently, Stream Analytics Job OutputStartMode can only be set to LastOutputEventTime if the event has been processed before. Otherwise, the following error occurs:
"LastOutputEventTime must be available when OutputStartMode is set to LastOutputEventTime. Please make sure at least one output event has been processed. "
This means that the user needs to initially set OutputStartMode to JobStartTime and later to LastOutputEventTime if that's the desired behaviour. As a consequence, the config file responsible for deploying ASA job needs to be tweaked after the first deployment which is undesirable in the prod environment.
Proposed behaviour
The proposed behaviour is to default to JobStartTime when the user has chosen LastOutputEventTime setting and no event has been processed before.
Broken documentation formatting
Also, the documentation is misleading and not properly formatted which may suggest the proposed behaviour:
