Search, record anatomy, history, and diagnostic workflows

Learning outcome

Use Search, golden-record details, History, and relations as architecture validation surfaces.

Scenario

A mapping looks correct in configuration, but stewards report that records are difficult to understand and some current values are surprising. You need to validate lived record behavior, not just configuration.

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Exercise

  1. Search for representative records from the domain you modeled.
  2. Add the columns a steward would need for investigation.
  3. Inspect one record’s current properties, History, and relations.
  4. Trace one visible value to its contributing evidence.
  5. Verify whether identity, display, vocabulary, and relation behavior match your design intent.
  6. Record at least one improvement if the record is hard to explain operationally.

Deliverable

A diagnostic review showing intended behavior, observed behavior, evidence, and any architecture correction.

Complete when

  • You can trace visible record behavior back to architecture decisions.
  • Search and record inspection support, rather than obstruct, stewardship.
  • Configuration is not considered validated until processed records behave as intended.

Next

Continue to Build the initial rule set and processing logic.