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Glossary term

What is Validation Rules?

Definition

Predefined criteria used to check the accuracy, completeness, and structure of product data during entry or import. In PIM, validation rules help enforce data standards, detect errors early, and maintain strong data governance. They ensure that only clean, compliant, and usable product data enters the system.

Rules turn acceptance criteria into repeatable checks with actionable failure messages. For example, an autonomous product data operation could take a lighting payload missing operating voltage, apply the category rule requiring a valid voltage range, and return the missing field as a release-blocking exception.

Validation Rules in an autonomous operation

  1. Step 1:

    Input

    A lighting payload missing operating voltage

  2. Step 2:

    Validation Rules

    Apply the category rule requiring a valid voltage range

  3. Step 3:

    Outcome

    Return the missing field as a release-blocking exception

Rules turn acceptance criteria into repeatable checks with actionable failure messages.

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