11 Matching and Deduplicating

The process of matching and deduplicating enables you to analyze incoming request items or nodes in a viewpoint and identify the nodes that might be duplicates in order to merge them.

The following matching operations are available:

• Matching and Merging Request Items: Match incoming request items for adding new nodes to nodes that already exist nodes in a node type in order to avoid duplicate nodes, and then merging the changes from the incoming request items into the nodes in the viewpoint.
• Deduplicating Nodes in a Viewpoint: Evaluate similar nodes in a viewpoint and then merge them into a single node if they are duplicates of one another.