Validation process¶

Once received, the file undergoes a validation process.

Three levels of validation are applied:

• Transaction level
• Record level
• Field level

The Transaction validation ensures the overall relationship between the records is correct. This checks mainly the order, numbering and counts of records.

Record validation checks a concrete relationship between records. For example, a TER agreement should follow an AGR or TER agreement.

Field level validation ensures each field contains the correct information. This checks things such as the size of the field, the pattern it must follow, or that the references IDs exist somewhere.