Identifier checks
Public:Rule Feature/IDENTIFIER CHECKS
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| A technical identifier, unique in a certain context. Technical key | IDENTIFIER_CHECKS
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| The human-friendly name shown for this concept in the user interface, used instead of the technical name to improve readability and understanding. Display name | Identifier checks |
| An informal and short human-readable definition of a concept, in terms of a 'one-liner'. Short description | Validate business (VAT, tax, business register IDs) and location identifiers against different data quality rules categories. |
| Informal and comprehensive human-readable definition of a concept. Description | CDQ data quality profiling services enable the validation of business and location identifiers (i.e. VAT numbers, Tax identifiers, national identifiers and other third party and proprietary identifiers) with respect to different data quality criteria. In particular this data capability inspects VAT IDs, Tax IDs, National identifiers (e.g. company register IDs), and other IDs (such as DUNS or Legal Entity Identifier) with respect to Existence, Format, Reference format, Checksums/Checkdigits (inner-consistency), and Consistency. |
| Category of a concept, not managed by wiki categories but regular pages. Category | Identifier checkdigit, Identifier consistency, Identifier deprecated, Identifier deprecation, Identifier existence, Identifier format, Identifier missing, Identifier qualification, Identifier schema |
CDQ manages 775 data quality rules in this feature, grouped by the following rule categories.
- Identifier checkdigit (98 rules): Validates checksums or checkdigits embedded in business identifiers to detect errors.
- Identifier consistency (15 rules): Validates that related identifiers maintain logical consistency with each other.
- Identifier deprecated (3 rules): Identifies identifiers using deprecated or obsolete identifier types or formats.
- Identifier deprecation (0 rules): Tracks and flags identifiers that are approaching deprecation or have been marked for phase-out.
- Identifier existence (93 rules): Validates that an identifier value actually exists in authoritative external data sources.
- Identifier format (228 rules): Validates that business identifiers conform to their specified syntactic format and structure.
- Identifier missing (135 rules): Flags business partner records that are missing mandatory or important identifiers.
- Identifier qualification (482 rules): Validates identifiers by verifying that associated name and address data match external authoritative sources.
- Identifier schema (97 rules): Validates that identifiers follow official formatting schemas including separators, spacing, and presentation.