Data Validation
Make better decisions
Incorrect or low-quality data can lead to poor decisions, so it’s essential to effectively validate data.
colea's validation feature allows users to add rules that prevent common data collection errors, such as allowing only numeric or text values, accepting numbers within a certain range, restricting entries to a drop-down list, or showing warning messages for incorrect entries. colea helps prevent incorrect entries.
Understand Your Variances
Ask for additional clarifications if variances exceed certain thresholds.
Errors or warnings
Distinguish between validation issues by classifying them as errors or warnings.
Use cases:
- If the variance between actual and budget exceeds 10%, a comment is required.
- If revenue reported on the customer level does not match revenue reported in P&L, submission is not allowed.
Errors: No submission possible unless all validations successful
Warnings: Submission possible even if warnings are generated