Validate Line Attributes for a Federal Attribute Supplemental Rule

After you define line attributes, you can validate the allocations and filters defined for a federal attribute supplemental rule.

Validating the federal attribute supplemental rule line attributes ensures that:

• There’s no overlap among the filters defined for the line attributes.
• The allocation percentage equals 100 if there are allocations defined for the line.

If the filters overlap or the allocation across the lines is less than 100 percent, the federal attribute supplemental rule validation will fail and the attributes won’t be picked up for GTAS processing.

Each line is validated against the preceding validated lines for overlap. To identify whether there's any overlap, the From and To values for each segment are validated against the From and To values of each segment of the other lines. For a line to be identified as having an overlap with another line, all segment From and To ranges for the line must have an overlap with the segment From and To ranges of at least one other line. Even if one segment value for the line doesn't overlap, the validation will be successful for that line.

Note: If you don’t specify any filters for a segment, the segment is considered to be all-inclusive, which means that the beginning range is the lowest possible value and the ending range is the highest possible value.

To validate a federal attribute supplemental rule, click Validate on the Federal Attribute Supplemental Rule page.

Results:

After the validation completes, the Validation Status for a line displays "Validated" if the validation is successful, or "Failed" if the validation failed. Click Edit on the row in the Line Attributes area to view what caused the validation errors.