Author Topic: dedupe rules length field (Read 745 times)

lcdweb · June 05, 2010, 10:52:04 am

i think there could be some improvements to how the dedupe rules work.
currently, if you define a rule with a length, that's a firm requirement for the match. which means if the string length is *less* than the rule length, it doesn't match.

for example, if i configure last name, length = 5, two records with the last name "Kim" will not match -- there are only three characters, and therefore they don't meet the five character rule.

I think the behavior should be tweaked so that if the string length >= rule length, then compare. if less than, just do a full string match.

Piotr Szotkowski · June 07, 2010, 11:38:06 am

Quote from: lcdweb on June 05, 2010, 10:52:04 am

if i configure last name, length = 5, two records with the last name "Kim" will not match -- there are only three characters, and therefore they don't meet the five character rule.

Argh, this is obviously idiotic behaviour – except I can’t reproduce it, neither on 3.1 nor on 3.2.

Can you give me step-by-step instructions, and/or verify on our demo (CiviCRM 3.1) or sandbox (CiviCRM 3.2) installs?

What I did was to change both fuzzy and strict individual rules to first name (weight 5) + last name (length 5, weight 7) + threshold of 12, and when I try to save a second Kim I’m pinged to verify possible dupe…

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Author Topic: dedupe rules length field (Read 745 times)

lcdweb

dedupe rules length field

Piotr Szotkowski

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