Repair rules are utilized by Data Veracity as a way for storing any repair conditions and business logic used in updating erroneous UDR fields with new values. The repair job is executed from the Data Veracity Search UI from a successful Query Result. For information about executing a repair job you may refer to Search.

The Repair Rules where repair rules could be created, viewed or deleted. It is accessed by selecting the Repair Rules option in the Data Veracity Dashboard.

Example - Repair Rules table.

Creating a Repair Rule

Repair rules can be created by clicking on the New button. 

Example - Creating a new repair rule

Follow these steps to create a new Repair Rule:

1. Select the Data Veracity profile and the UDR type. These will help relate the repair rule back to results in the Search UI that relates to the profile and UDR type.
   
   

2. Click on the New Rule button.
   
   
3. Select the UDR Field in the first combo box.
   
   

4. Select the operation to be conducted in the second combo box. You can choose between Assign, Increase or Decrease for numeric values or Assign, Append, Prepend, Insert, Replace or Trim for string values.
   
   

5. You can also check the APL check box to allow the include business logic in the form of APL codes into the rule itself.

   
   

   Info!

   Restricted fields will not appear for selection in the combo box. For more information on how to set up restricted fields, refer to Restricted Fields.

   Info!

   If an existing repair rule contains one or more restricted fields, those fields will be grayed out and will be not be editable. The repair task will also not repair the field.

Editing a Repair Rule

Repair rules can be edited by clicking on the Edit button.

Example - Editing an existing repair rule

When editing a rule:

• You cannot rename the rule.
• You cannot change the Data Veracity profile or the UDR type.
• You can modify any existing rules that are present in the Repair Rules section.
• You can add new rules to support the existing repair rules or an altogether new repair rule for a new field.

Deleting a Repair Rule

Repair rules can only be deleted from the Repair Rules UI. Deleting a repair rule here will remove it completely from Data Veracity.

To delete a repair rule, you can select one or many rules at once and then click on the Delete button.

You will be prompted with a dialog asking if you would want to delete the selected rules. If you click Delete, the selected rules will be deleted.

Example - Deleting a repair rule