Validation Rules

Overview

The Validation Rule screen contains the catalogue of validation rules that vendors must comply to be able to participate in procurement eventsThe vendor validation rules related to the Purchasing Vehicle of the Procurement Document must be automatically populated in the Procurement Document Vendor Validation Rules entity, where users can customize it for a particular Procurement Document. According to these rules, users can change the default values of: ‘comparison operator’ and the ‘Vendor Rule Value’; and users can add more vendor validation rules as needed.

 

Navigation

Procurement ► Support Entities ► Vendor Validation Rule

 

 Validations Rules Screen Fields

Report Field

Description

ID

Unique auto-generated numeric code of the Validation Rule

Attribute

It contains the reference to the Vendor attribute, subject to be validated.

Operator

It only can have: '<', '>', '=' for numeric and date data types; 'true', 'false' for boolean data types; and '=' for string data types

Value

It contains the value to be validated against the value of the Vendor attribute

Active

If false, the Validation Rule cannot be used anymore and it would only be there for reference purposes.If checked, the validation rule is available for use.

Language

Country specific language used to describe the validation rule for vendor

Abbreviation

Short form of the Validation Rule

Description

Detail description of the Validation Rule