Help with Blocking Keys for Phone Numbers not generating results

BAmos

Hi all,

I'm trying to create two blocking keys for phone numbers, one that works off the first 5 digits, and one that works off the last 5 digits. I've tried several variations of this both in with other blocking keys and now on their own, and they are not generating any results, can anybody help with suggestions of where I am going wrong?

Here is the latest script that I'm using:

[{

"description":"Phone_Area",

"countryCode":"GBR",

"elementSpecifications":[{

"elementType":"PHONE",

"elementGroups":["PHONE1","PHONE2"],

"algorithm":{

"name":"START_SUBSTRING",

"properties":{"LENGTH":5}},

"includeFromNChars":1

}]

},

{

"description":"Phone_Local",

"countryCode":"GBR",

"elementSpecifications":[{

"elementType":"PHONE",

"elementGroups":["PHONE1","PHONE2"],

"algorithm":{

"name":"END_SUBSTRING",

"properties":{"LENGTH":5}},

"includeFromNChars":1

}]

}

]

For reference PHONE1 is a mobile field and PHONE2 is a Telephone field. I have also run this manually and know that there are blocks to be created from this.

Thanks all :)

Henry Simms

Hi @BAmos

Just tested this, it looks like you need to lowecase "LENGTH" to "length" for both the Phone_Local and Phone_Area keys, eg:

"algorithm":{

  "name":"END_SUBSTRING",

    "properties":{

      "length":5

    }

  },

With that change, I now see blocking keys being created as expected when using the workbench:

Note that the example phone numbers used here are randomly generated test data.

Thanks, Henry

Mark Southwell

Hi @BAmos

just to add to @Henry Simms answer above if you change your matching rules to have the following:

it will take into account the names of the Element Groups you have used changing the results from this:

to this: