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Field disambiguation

PatrickAucoin — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 20:38:00 GMT

Hi everyone,

How are you dealing with ambiguity at the field level? I usually try using sample headers and exclude headers in the DFD first. Are there other techniques that are working well for you?

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Patrick Aucoin
Senior Product Consultant
Blue Prism
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RE: Field disambiguation

Tejaskumar_Darji — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:28:00 GMT

Hi,

Till the date I am using sample headers only but I too have observed some ambiguity there, I see this more for Line item headers. Like it can not map Sample header with the line item header most of the time. Once I manually map line item table it starts taking that column.

I also wanted to know what you put in exclude headers, like you write all of the other headers there or how?

Thanks

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Regards,
Tejaskumar Darji
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RE: Field disambiguation

PatrickAucoin — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 23:21:00 GMT

You probably don't need to put all of the other headers in the exclude headers list. General categories of things to consider for exclude header (in order of priority):
-Any header where the wrong field is identified
-Headers that are semantically similar to, but distinct from, the target field
-Headers for fields that are usually located near the target field, especially if there is no visual boundary separating the fields

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Patrick Aucoin
Senior Product Consultant
Blue Prism
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