Glossary term
What is Data Validation?
Definition
Data validation ensures product information meets defined quality, completeness, and format requirements before use. It catches errors early through rules and automated checks. PIM relies heavily on validation to maintain catalog trustworthiness.
Validation checks conformance to rules; passing checks does not independently verify every fact. For example, an autonomous product data operation could take a fixture record with an invalid negative wattage, evaluate the configured range and type constraints, and return the record for correction instead of publishing it.
Data Validation in an autonomous operation
- Step 1:
Input
A fixture record with an invalid negative wattage
- Step 2:
Data Validation
Evaluate the configured range and type constraints
- Step 3:
Outcome
Return the record for correction instead of publishing it
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