Guidelines - Duplication of Ruleset Contents

[hayfield]

As part of the investigation under #334 - identifying must statements among Guidelines.

There are several Guidelines that are contained within the Standard Ruleset.

http://iatistandard.org/202/activity-standard/overview/iati-activity/
Every iati-activity must have a globally unique iati-identifier

http://iatistandard.org/202/activity-standard/overview/iati-identifier/
The iati-identifier must be unique for every iati-activity within the complete dataset published.

http://iatistandard.org/202/activity-standard/overview/classifications/
A sector is mandatory. - note that the details here are unclear (without investigation, it looks like they are optional in the Schema)

http://iatistandard.org/202/activity-standard/overview/budgets/
When declaring a value-date for any budget, this date must be in the past.

http://iatistandard.org/105/activity-standard/overview/transactions/
Neither of transaction-date and value-date can be in the “future”.

[amy-silcock]

Must statements among guidelines are allowed as long as they match what's in the Standard. Sector is mandatory at activity or transaction level - not both.

The new overview pages better explain the rules and guidance for each element. In the move to the new website these will replace the current overview pages.