TIBCO MDM Customization Guide - TIBCO Product Documentation

Record Duplicate Detection Process| 209Specifying Merge AttributesIn case of large number of attributes, you may want to skip a few attributes andallow rest of the attributes. Accordingly, you can specify either allow or skipattributes in a rulebase file.To merge records, specify merging attributes based on any one of the followingtwo constraints:• Allow Merge: To allow attributes for merge, sample allowAttrList.xmlrulebase file is provided in the $MQ_COMMON_DIR/standard/rulebase folder.Specify the attribute name in this file.For Reference Repository Matching. you must specify allow merge attributes inthe following format:CUSTOMERSTAGING:FirstName=CUSTOMERREFERENCE:FNameCUSTOMERSTAGING:LastName=CUSTOMERREFERENCE:LName• Skip Merge: To skip attributes for merge, sample skipAttrList.xmlrulebase file is provided in the $MQ_COMMON_DIR/standard/rulebase folder.Specify the attribute name in this file.For Reference Repository Matching, skip Merge is not supported.In case of Direct merge, if you do not specify allow or skip merge attributes in therulebase, all attributes from source record except PRODUCTID and PRODUCTIDEXTare merged into the target record. However, in case of Reference RepositoryMatching, only matching attributes are merged.Customizing Workflow for Merge AttributesThe SkipMergeAttributeList and AllowMergeAttributeList parameters inthe MergeRecord activity evaluates merge or skip attributes. By default, theSkipMergeAttributeList parameter is specified in the MergeRecord activity.For allow merge, you need to customize the workflow.To customize the workflow:1. Go $MQ_HOME\common\standard\workflow folder.2. Open wfin26productaddinternaleditv1.xml file.TIBCO MDM Customization Guide