To avoid UMF errors that prevent a record in a UMF file from loading,
use the UMF validation feature in the Visualizer to validate the file. The
validation process checks the file to make sure that the data in that file
meets the minimum requirements for data to be processed through entity and
relationshp resolution.
Procedure:
- In the Visualizer, do one of the following actions:
- From the View menu, select UMF,
and then select UMF Validate File.
- From the toolbar, select the down arrow to the right of the
(UMF) icon, and then select UMF Validate File .
- From the UMF window, in the UMF drop-down
field, select UMF Validate File.
- Click the Validate File... button.
- From the UMF Validation Setup dialog, click
the Browse... button to the right of the File
to Validate field to browse to and select the UMF file that you
want to validate. Then, from the UMF Validate File dialog,
click the Open button. The full path to
the file displays on the UMF Validation Setup dialog
in the File to Validate field.
- Optional: If you want to change the directory path
or filename of the validation process log file, from the UMF Validation
Setup dialog, click the Browse... button
to the right of the Error/Warning File field to browse
to and select the directory and filename to use (or type the filename). Then,
from the UMF Validate File dialog, click the Open button. The default log file that displays on the UMF Validation
Setup dialog is located in the same directory where the selected
data file is located. The default log file is a text file, withe the same
name as the data file with the .LOG file extension.
- After the validation process is finished, click the View
Results button to see a summary of the validation results. A summary of the UMF file validation displays in the UMF
Validation Results View window.
What to do next:
Use the information provided to correct any UMF inconsistencies or
errors identified by the validation process.