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Internal Consistency Evaluators (ICE) Reference

Internal Consistency Evaluators Internal consistency evaluators also called ICE’s are custom actions written in VBScript, JScript or as a DLL or EXE. When these custom actions are executed, they scan the database for entries in database records that are valid when examined individually but that may cause incorrect behavior in the context of the whole [...]

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Creating an Internal Consistency Evaluator

Example of Creating an Internal Consistency Evaluator (ICE) using Orca Whilst the ICE list is pretty comprehensive there will be a point where you need to validate information that is not covered by the standard ICE unit tests, to do this you will need to add your own Internal Consistency Evaluator. Here is an example [...]

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