Specifications

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FIGURE 7-7 The Required Fields business rule
When creating a business rule, you can use any of the following types of actions:
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Default Value Sets the default value of an attribute to blank, a specic value that
you supply in the business rule, a generated value that increments from a specied
starting value, or a value derived by concatenating multiple attribute values
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Change Value Updates the attribute value to blank, another attribute value, or a
value derived by concatenating multiple attribute values
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Validation Creates a validation warning and, if you choose, sends a notication
e-mail to a specied user or group
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External Action Starts a workow at a specied Microsoft SharePoint site or
initiates a custom action
Because users can add or edit data only while the master data model version is open,
invalid data can exist only while the model is still in development and unavailable to other
systems. You can easily identify the members that pass or fail the business rule validation
when you view a list of members in Explorer, as shown in Figure 7-8. In this example, the rst
two records are in violation of one or more of the business rules. Remember that you can see
the specic violation issues for a member when you open it for editing.
FIGURE 7-8 Business rule validation