The STEP Matching and Linking component offers powerful functionality for identifying and handling duplicate product, entity, asset, and classification objects in STEP.
The matching and linking functionality is most commonly used for:
Before configuring the matching and linking functionality you must define what qualifies two or more objects as duplicates.
There are also many cases far more complex than those listed above.
When dealing with datasets of thousands or millions of objects, comparing each and every object with every other object is not a viable solution. In order to limit the number of comparisons, Match Codes must be generated for the applicable objects and then evaluated and matched together via a Matching Algorithm. The system can be configured to handle those matches in two ways: by simply merging matching records, or by generating Golden Records, which combines the data of all confirmed matching objects into one 'true' record.
For more information on match codes and matching algorithms, see the Matching and Linking Components section of the Matching and Linking documentation here.
For more information of golden records, see the Golden Records Match Action section of the Matching and Linking documentation here.
Several different matching and linking tasks can be completed in Web UI. See the list below for relevant Web UI topics:
Note: This list will be updated periodically as additional Web UI topics are developed.
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