Matching Criteria

USE:

Matching Criteria is an optional configuration for tables that contain multiple items (like sales order items). When reference and new records are compared, they will be first matched by the field specified here.

If no matching criteria are defined, items are compared based on an index ( first position from an original document with the first position from a new document, etc. ). It can lead to false-negative results if the new document's positions are posted in a different order.

EXAMPLE:

sample configuration matching Sales Order lines based on purchase item number:

Field Name
POSEX

Let's imagine the following situation:

Reference document contains three items and newly created two items (due to some error).

If matching criteria are set to field POSEX:

Ref Document Items (POSEX value)	newly created document	Validation status
10	10	OK
20	missing	Missing item
30	30	OK

if matching criteria are not set:

Ref Document Items (POSEX value)	newly created document	Validation status
10	10	OK
20	30	Different values
30	Missing	Missing item