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I have never had an issue with RECENCY rules until just this month where it started to act as an aggregate rule in my PRD environment.    Verifying both the primary and secondary rule they are both set to Recency with a drop down of Zero to multiple values.   I always found this drop down to be odd as Recency should NEVER have multiple values.

Anyone else encounter this issue in their environment and know the root cause?  

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Karen Demotses
Fresenius
North Andover MA
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Hi Karen, 

There can be a few data scenarios where recency can also show aggregated view of the data. 

• If both (or more) objects under the nest is contributed by the same crosswalk. In this case, Reltio will survive both objects under the nest. As there are no other crosswalks to compare against. 
  
  
• The nested objects are contributed by different crosswalks. However, those crosswalks have the exact same last update date. In this situation also, if there are no fallback strategy that can break the tie, Reltio will end up surviving more than one objects under the nest. 

Can you please check if your data falls under any of the above scenarios ?

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Diparnab Dey
Technical Consultant
Reltio
Kolkata, West Bengal
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I would agree with Diparnab, but would ask one further question:  You say that you have not seen this until last month.  Is it possible that you have recently updated your configuration, possibly adding a cleanser?  Cleansers can impact last updated dates which would affect recency strategies.

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Gino Fortunato
Principal Solution Engineer
Reltio
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-02-2026 00:59
From: Diparnab Dey
Subject: Survivorship Rule "Recency" - Why am I getting an aggregated view of data in my data nest?

Hi Karen, 

There can be a few data scenarios where recency can also show aggregated view of the data. 

• If both (or more) objects under the nest is contributed by the same crosswalk. In this case, Reltio will survive both objects under the nest. As there are no other crosswalks to compare against. 
  
  
• The nested objects are contributed by different crosswalks. However, those crosswalks have the exact same last update date. In this situation also, if there are no fallback strategy that can break the tie, Reltio will end up surviving more than one objects under the nest. 

Can you please check if your data falls under any of the above scenarios ?

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Diparnab Dey
Technical Consultant
Reltio
Kolkata, West Bengal
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