When working with Reference Data table there may be a business requirement to control what kind of values can be input into a given attribute which are checked whenever a user creates or edits records within the RDM application. There are two kinds of validations:
The first kind are called Instantaneous validations. These conditions, e.g., regular expressions or string size are checked automatically when you enter an attribute value. When the input value fails to meet these condition, an INVALID message appears next to the attribute field.
The second kind are called Online validations. These are more complex conditions, which are triggered by clicking Validate in the Create detail/Edit detail dialogue or upon closing them. Such validations are performed by DQC plans (using, e.g., phone number or address lookups) or SQL queries in RDM. When the input value fails to meet these condition, a Warning message appears next to the attribute field.
Records which do not satisfy online conditions (or which are imported to RDM with invalid inputs) will have the INVALID value in the Validity default column and cannot be published.
Record validity conditions and validations are defined by the administrator in the RDM back-end and cannot be changed directly in the web application.
