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removing "fuzzy" and "strict" categorization of dedupe rules
March 28, 2009, 02:25:54 am
As of [CRM-4124] all default rules are run regardless of whether they are strict or fuzzy.  This means that the terms strict and fuzzy no longer have any meaning.  It was a fairly a difficult concept  to describe to non-technical clients anyway.  Should we just remove this categorization, so that there are just many dedupe rules with one default per contact type?
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Re: removing "fuzzy" and "strict" categorization of dedupe rules
March 28, 2009, 06:53:23 am

the general principle is as follows:

1. only one rule is run at any time

2. if a civicrm admin is present for the operation (like edit / create contact), run the fuzzy rule, else run the strict rule (for contribution/event transactions)

3. the user can choose to run any rule from the manage rules screen

That issue does not seem to indicate that multiple rules are run.

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Re: removing "fuzzy" and "strict" categorization of dedupe rules
March 29, 2009, 06:58:53 pm
Those principles sound reasonable (if that's what's happening internally).  However none of the help documentation (either within CiviCRM or on the wiki) says anything like that.  Perhaps it's just a matter of updating the help documentation to reflect those 3 principles.
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Re: removing "fuzzy" and "strict" categorization of dedupe rules
March 30, 2009, 07:02:07 am

can you please update the documentation :)

thanx

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