April 2024 Release Notes

With this latest release, we have introduced a new feature - the ability to rerun failed vendor master records - alongside a number of minor improvements and bug fixes on existing features.

:arrows_counterclockwise: Ability to Rerun Failed Vendor Master Records

This new feature allows users to seamlessly rerun any records that failed within an existing pipeline, which will help to:

  1. Eliminate failed records to get a more accurate picture of pipeline metrics.
  2. Make it easier and more efficient to deal with failed records.
  3. Make it easier to evaluate the outcomes of each vendor master pipeline in its entirety.

As a reminder, a failed record is a record that failed to process due to some system error unrelated to the data itself. Record Failed is considered to be an end-state status, but these records, had they not failed, should actually fall into one of the other statuses which provides more information about the record such as Record Matched, Manual Matching, No Match Found, or Record Dropped.

With this release, users can rerun failed records within an existing pipeline_id with the click of a button in the SDP User Console, or using the reRunFailedRecord mutation directly through the API. These records will be kicked back to the start of processing within the existing pipeline_id, allowing users to generate more complete metrics within a single pipeline_id.


 

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Retry button added to the dashboard view, for scenarios where all records in a given pipeline_id fail.

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Retry button added to the Failed Records block on the Pipeline Overview page

Prior to this release:

  • Failed Records were stuck in this status indefinitely on the respective pipeline_id.
  • The process to rerun failed records was manual and time-consuming. Users had to navigate to a given pipeline overview page, export the unmatched suppliers output, open the spreadsheet, filter the sheet to only display failed records, copy the name and address data for the failed records into the accepted vendor master template, save this as a new file, navigate to the console’s file uploader page, and upload the newly created file.
  • If there were failed records in Pipeline ABC, those records would have to be rerun as a new pipeline, Pipeline XYZ. This means that to evaluate metrics and/or export data on this Vendor Master as a whole, users would have to navigate back-and-forth between the respective pipeline overview pages in the SDP User Console and/or query data on >1 pipeline_id.

:sparkles: Minor Optimizations and Bug Fixes

  • On the Pipeline Overview Page in the SDP User Console, values <1% are now represented as such in the metrics panels vs being represented as 0%.
  • Tooltip has been added to the No Match Found metric block on the Dashboard and Pipeline Overview pages in the SDP User Console.
  • The View Downloads modal now automatically updates when a file is ready. Users no longer need to refresh the page.
  • The Unmatched Suppliers CSV Export column order has been fixed, so unmatched reason and error columns are now the last columns in the file.
  • Type modifier String! is now string!