End-dating golden records

In the Golden Records page, you can manually end-date selected golden records in a domain to designate them as inactive. End-dating is “soft” deletion.

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Before you can end-date the referenced GRID, purge the referencing GRID from the DataHub system.

About this task

Manually end-dating golden records is most often necessary during the implementation phase of a Boomi DataHub project while you are fine-tuning your source system-Boomi DataHub repository integration processes.

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When you end-date a record that references another record, if that referenced record is also end-dated, restoring the reference will not make it visible in the end-dated record view. This is because end-dated records are inactive, so any restored references will not show up in those end-dated records.

Procedure

1. Select Stewardship > Golden Records.

2. In the repository/domain list, select the domain.

3. Do one of the following:

   • In the data grid, select the check boxes of the golden records you are end-dating.

   • Filter the data grid to load only the golden records you are end-dating.

4. Click the End-date button located immediately above the data grid and make a selection from the button’s drop-down menu as follows:

   

   • If, in step 3, you selected the golden records you are end-dating, select Selected.

   • If, in step 3, you filtered the data grid to load only the golden records you are end-dating, select All Matching Applied Filters.

   A confirmation dialog appears.

5. To confirm your request, click End-date.

   • If in step 4, you selected Selected, the golden records you selected are end-dated.

   • If in step 4, you selected All Matching Applied Filters, a bulk processing request of type End-date is created, and a status box appears.

   In either case, when a golden record is end-dated, a source record update request specifying a Delete operation is propagated to the applicable source for each source entity to which the golden record is linked.

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   You can also end-date a golden record by selecting End-date this record in the Actions menu in the golden record’s detail view. This method requires confirmation as well. A bulk processing request is not created.

6. If in step 4, you selected All Matching Applied Filters, click the Close button when it appears in the status box upon conclusion of the processing of the bulk processing request.