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Creating Oracle Customer Hub (UCM) Survivorship Rules for Child Entities

This task is a step in Process of Creating Survivorship Rules. For more information on survivorship rules, see About Oracle Customer Hub (UCM) Survivorship Rules. Use the following task to create a survivorship rule for a child record, also known as an entity survivorship rule.

To create a entity survivorship rule

1. Navigate to Administration - Universal Customer Master, then Entity Survivorship Rules.
2. In the Entity Survivorship Rules list, click New.
3. Enter values for the columns in the record. See the following table for information on the available columns.

   Column Name	Description
   Name	Enter a name for the new rule.
   Object Name	Use the drop-down list to choose a valid child record type.
   Parent Object	Use the drop-down list to choose a parent object record type.
   Status	Sets the entity survivorship rule to Active or Inactive. Select Inactive while creating and defining the entity survivorship rule.
   Start Date	Configures the date when the survivorship rule becomes valid.
   End Date	Configures the date when the survivorship rule is invalidated.
   Default Criteria	The default criteria is used in user key based matches to eliminate the losing record. It is also used within the existing master record or within the incoming match record when the business service user property EntityInternalProcess is set to True.
   End Date Field Name	The name of the field for which victim instances will be end-dated.
   Business Service Name	This column with the Business Service Method and Rule Module column appear only when the default criteria are set to External. This setting enables you to enter this additional, required information.
   Business Service Method	This column with the Business Service Name and Rule Method column appear only when the default criteria are set to External. This setting enables you to enter this additional, required information.
   Rule Module Name	The Business Rule Modules define in an external rule engine.