MSCRM 4.0 Duplicate Detection Publishing Statuses

Published on 14 January 2008 • Estimated reading time: 1 minutes

I recently was looking for some concrete information on the various status meanings in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 for duplicate detection rules and their publishing. Checking the help didn’t help, so I used the feedback option to report this. This morning, I received a response answering my exact question. Anyway, for anyone else looking for this information, here it is (not like you couldn’t guess, but better to be safe than sorry):

• Unpublished: Rule has been created, but match codes have not yet been generated.
• Publishing: Match codes are in the process of being generated. The rule is not yet in effect. This step can take a while if you have many records.
• Published: Match codes have been generated for each record in the base and the matching record type for the rule. Records created or updated after the rule is published will be checked against existing records.