Intelligent linking in inriver Enrich

This article gives an overview of what Intelligent Linking is and how to use it in Enrich.

About intelligent linking

Intelligent Linking allows you to automatically include/exclude links between entities, based on predefined rules and/or queries. Intelligent Linking eliminates the manual aspect of linking entities by applying predefined criteria for when a link should exist.

Intelligent Linking can be configured in Enrich and Plan & Release , or through the DataService API. The configuration is defined per entity and outbound LinkType.

Rules and/or queries can be used to specify if and when a link should exist. Rules specify that a field should have a certain value while queries define which entities should be linked.

Intelligent linking in inriver Enrich

In Enrich, Intelligent Linking can be created for each outbound LinkType. 

To configure a link rule in inriver Enrich

1. In Enrich, open an entity and click the Includes tab.
2. Click the entity type navigation menu and click Configure link rule. 
   
3. This opens up Configure Link Rule for [EntityType] editing view where you can set rules using rules and queries.
   
4. In the Link type field, select the LinkTypeId for the Intelligent Linking. 

Deleting a link rule

When a link rule is deleted, any links created by the link rule will remain and have to be deleted manually. If a new link rule is added, the result will overwrite any existing links.

Further reading

Intelligent linking, link rules, and queries

Intelligent linking in inriver Plan & Release