IM Relationship Resolution Information Center, Version 4.2

Finding entities by attribute

When you are using the Visualizer, and you want to find an entity in the entity database, you can find the entity by entering criteria on the attributes associated with the entity. You specify the attribute criteria, and the Visualizer builds a query based on that criteria. This type of entity query does not go through the entity resolution process to return search results.

Procedure:
  1. In the Visualizer, do one of the following:
    1. From the View menu, select Find By, and then select Attribute.
    2. From the toolbar, click on the (Find) icon.
    3. From the toolbar, click on the down arrow to the right of the (Find) icon, and then select Attribute.
    4. From the Find By window, select Attribute from the Find By drop-down list.
  2. Enter the criteria for each attribute type that you want to use to find entities.
    1. Click the + button to add a row to specify criteria for another attribute type.
    2. Click the - button to remove the selected query criteria entry.
  3. Optional: Click the Show Summary button to view a summary of the Find By Attribute query. This is a helpful way to make sure that the query contains the values that you intended. If not, you can close the summary, correct the query criteria, and check the summary again.

    Two query criteria of the same attribute type constitutes an "OR" clause. All other query criteria combine as "AND" clauses.

    The order of the attribute type criteria does not affect the results.

Entities that match the query criteria display in the Results pane.

Results displayed for Find by Attribute queries are limited, by default, to the first 1,000 matching entities. If there are more than 1,000 matches, the Results pane indicates that more results exist. (The number of results displayed can be configured by your system administrator in the Configuration Console by setting the MAX_ENTITIES_RETURNED parameter under system parameters.)

Note: If your system uses an additional address hygiene application, addresses that include special characters may be transliterated. For example, the search result for a German address that contains one or more umlauts in the address may return a result that does not contain matching umlauts.
What to do next:
You can display the entity resume for any entity in the search results by clicking on the entity.


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Last updated: 2009