Designing Failed Data Reports
The Failed Data Report is the final level of detail for the data quality reporting. It is intended to be a completely actionable list of records that need correction. This report does not tend to vary much between organizations – it is a simple list of record-level details.
The following sections will provide details of the report, including its features, elements, and the benefits that they provide.
Typical features of the Failed Data Reports
The Failed Data Reports should provide enough detail to do the following:
- Quickly and easily identify the record
- Clearly show the data issue for each record
- Provide as much assistance as possible to the user in correcting the issue
As already mentioned, the report is typically accessed by drilling through from the Rule Results Report. The user will select a row of the Rule Results Report and click the number of failed records to see the Failed Data Report. It does not have to...
