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UUID-Field Elements

Each database can contain several UUID-Fields. Each UUID-Fields has the following elements: Name, Group, Function, and Weight. The following list describes these elements:

Name

Specifies a name that is provided for each UUID-Field that is extracted from the database. The name does not have to be identical across each database.

Group

Specifies a name that is used for each common data type. The name for each common data type must be identical in each database.

Function

Specifies the action to be performed on the database fields. This might be to extract the data contained in a database field, or it might be to extract a combination of data contained in several fields in the database.

For help on the protocol used to construct combinations click the ? button in the Fields section of the User Database window. See the "UUID Indexing Functions" section for a complete list of the functions available to manipulate database fields and create UUID-Fields.

Weight

Provides a numeric measure to indicate the internal priority given to each group within a database. The greater the value the higher the priority. The UUID tool processes the groups according to their order of priority.

A value of 0 means that this group is not taken into consideration in the matching process.