System Administration
With the results of Duplicate Detection validation, the primary key in the Duplicate Detection Validation fields and any fields for which Duplicate Detection has been enabled display. To include or exclude specific columns, create a view containing the primary key columns and any additional columns that should display to the user.
NOTE: When performing Duplicate Detection against an index of another table, the view must contain the primary key columns as defined at the index level. If there are no keys defined at the index level, then the view must contain the source table’s primary keys.
Once created, the view needs to be registered in DSP®.
To register the view:
- Click Admin > WebApps on the Navigation pane.
- Click the Pages icon for a webapp.
- Click the Events icon for a page.
- Click the Validation Rules icon for an event.
- Click Vertical View for a rule.
- Click Edit.
- Select view from Duplicate Detection View list box.
- Click Save.
When the Duplicate Detection Validation is triggered, the columns in the view display rather than the default columns selected by DSP®. In addition to controlling which columns display to the user, the Duplicate Detection view can be used to filter out records. This filtering process allows the developer to control which records are candidates for Duplicate Detection.
By way of example, an index may contain customer records from around the world, but only checking for Duplicate Detection in the United States is necessary. A Where Clause can be added to the Duplicate Detection view. The Where clause selects only those customers located in the United States by performing an Inner Join to the Duplicate Detection view at runtime. Therefore, any records not present in the view are, by definition, excluded from the validation result set.
