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Business Rules for MeF

Business Rules for MeF. By Greg Martinez & Donna Mucilli. Business Rules. Schemas are only part of the story! Industry Manual/ERO Manual must still be created Post on state website along with the XML schema set Use Approved TIGERS Format

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Business Rules for MeF

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  1. Business Rules for MeF By Greg Martinez & Donna Mucilli

  2. Business Rules • Schemas are only part of the story! • Industry Manual/ERO Manual must still be created • Post on state website along with the XML schema set • Use Approved TIGERS Format • Goal is to make it easy for industry to support the state

  3. What are business rules? • Known as error reject codes in legacy system • Use to catch errors that are not formatting errors • Business rules are not the spreadsheets used for category based filings. • Those spreadsheets are not needed for forms based systems

  4. Business rules best practices • Error and Reject codes must be clearly worded • Ideally should be clear to taxpayers as written • Avoid using tag names in message text • Rules organized by category • For benefit of agencies & developers • Rule numbers indicate what form it applies to (i.e. – F1040-001 vs. 0123) • Keep business rules in sync with legacy system during transition period • Generally, follow what the IRS does

  5. Types of errors caught by business rules • Math rules (A + B = C) • Required supporting documents • Required pdf attachments and naming conventions • “Soft” edits that do not reject a return (alerts) • Payment rules for the program • Due dates and resubmission windows

  6. IRS business rule categories • Data Mismatch • Database Validation Error • Duplicate Condition • Incorrect Data • Math Error • Missing Data • Missing Document • Multiple Documents • Not on time • System Error • Unsupported • XML Error

  7. Schema vs business rules • Use schema to prevent formatting errors • Data exceeds maximum length • Invalid data for data type • Required fields • Records in correct order • Tag names are valid • Enumerated lists

  8. Schema vs business rules • PROs of using schema to validate • Allows developers to self test • No ambiguity as to error condition • CONs of using schema to validate • Challenging to communicate reason for validation failure to the users • Many XML parsers throw incomprehensible error messages! • Use of XPath in error acknowledgments Lean toward schema validation vs. business rules

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