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Increasing the Threshold of Number for Duplicate Records when Activating Marching Rules

Hello,

We're trying to activate a Matching Rule in Salesforce but due to our data already containing a high amount of duplicates Salesforce Duplicate Management keeps rejecting the activation of the rule with the error:

"You tried to activate the matching rule <field name>. Matching Rule for identifying duplicate records. However, we can't activate the rule because it defines an unusually large number of records as possible duplicates."

The obvious answer would be to clean-up this data, but without going into detail that is not an option at this stage in the short-term. Is there any way to increase this duplicate data threshold limit in-order to make the rule activate? Failing that, is there some other type of validation we could implement?

Kind Regards,
David

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DavidCapturDavidCaptur

Did some more research and I believe this resource provides the best answer:

https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000317265&language=en_US&type=1&mode=1

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David Zhu 🔥David Zhu 🔥
In your case, I would suggest using trigger to act as additional matching rule.
DavidCapturDavidCaptur
An Apex trigger could well be the only option we have.
DavidCapturDavidCaptur

Did some more research and I believe this resource provides the best answer:

https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000317265&language=en_US&type=1&mode=1

This was selected as the best answer