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Creating and Editing Completeness Metrics

STEP allows the use of multiple completeness metrics simultaneously. This is useful, for example, if multiple channel specific completeness measurements are required. An attribute can be created to hold completeness scores for a specific completeness metric, thus offering a means to display different completeness measurements for the same object. Additionally, multiple metrics can use the same completeness score attribute.

Note: A completeness metric does not have to be an attribute with associated completeness scores. In these cases, all data objects (attributes and references) are part of the completeness calculation and have an equal score.

Create a Completeness Metric

1. Optionally, create an attribute that can hold the completeness score values.

Note that if you want to migrate legacy completeness values stored in a special system attribute to a Description attribute, the attribute must meet a series of requirements. For more information, see the Migrating Completeness Scores to Description Attributes section of the Data Profiling documentation here.

If you create an attribute that is not going to be used for migrating completeness scores, it does not have to meet these requirements.

2. In System Setup, right-click the Setup Group Root that holds completeness metrics, and then click New Completeness Metric.

3. Enter an ID and a Name for the metric, and then click create. The completeness metric is added as a child below the selected Setup Group Root.
4. Select the metric that you just created, and then, on the Completeness Metric tab, click Edit.

5. In the Edit Completeness Metric Configuration editor, select the relevant completeness plug-in. The number of available plug-ins is system specific. A Standard Completeness Plugin is provided by Stibo Systems.

The Completeness Score Attribute field allows you to select which attribute will hold the completeness scores for the completeness metric, if applicable. If nothing is specified, all elements of the object that could contribute to the overall object completeness score will, and they are all weighed evenly.

The Attribute Group(s) Filter allows you to specify which attributes and references / links should be considered in the completeness calculation.

The Completeness Plugin provides the following options:

On the Completeness Metric tab, in the Configuration area, you can view the configuration settings.

Note: If data containers should be considered for an entity's completeness score, the completeness metric must use default settings.

Set a Default Completeness Metric

When a completeness metric is set as the default metric, the completeness meter shown on the product and entity editor tabs in the Workbench display the value from the default completeness metric.

1. In System Setup, expand the Setup Group Root that holds completeness metrics, and then select the completeness metric you want to apply as default.
2. On the Completeness tab, in the Description area, select Default.

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