Affiliations Editor (print topic)

Use this screen to maintain the list and priority of affiliates (appraisers you want to automatically share data and pictures with via UADNet.com). You can open this screen using Edit affiliates... link in the Settings panel, or the Affiliations value in the Program Settings dialog.

The State combobox loads the list of appraisers in the left hand column so you can select them by name.
The left column lists the currently active appraisers in the state selected.
The right (Reliability Ranking column orders the selected appraisers from most to least reliable (in sale reporting accuracy).
The Reliability Ranking buttons reorder the list of names in the right column.

Grunt uses the list on the right hand side to determine the priority for merging property records to your dataset. As an example, assume Appraiser X used the settings shown in the image. The left hand colmn tells Grunt that Appraiser X wants to share their data with: Jesse X Chen, Sandra F Clarendon, and James L Morrison.

Grunt will automatically copy the most current data () available  

In the right hand column Appraiser X has re-arranged the names to indicate that in their opinion:

•  Sandra F Clarendon has the most reliable records,
• Jesse X Chen had less reliable records than Sandra F Clarendon, and
• James L Morrison has the least reliable records

 of the three.

Record Merging Priority

Grunt merges records from datasets using the priority:

1. The user's current dataset extracted from the most recent files in their collection
2. Archived user files specifide in the Additional Data sources Dialog
3. Other files specifically identified by the user in the Additional Data sources Dialog
4. Affiliate files in order of priority set in the Affiliations Editor.

Since only unique sale records are loaded, this means that the user's dataset will include all of their latest comparable sales, then
any records missing from that dataset that are found in Archived files, then
any records still missing from that dataset that are found in Other files specified by the user, then
any records still missing from that dataset that are found in the first Affiliate's data file, then
any records still missing from that dataset that are found in the second Affiliate's data file, etc.

Priority Logic:

The quality and reliability of data from different appraisers varies, and is a user's opinion. That opinion is based to varying extent by the user's experience, personal relationship to, and professional knowledge of the other appraisers. To be able to import only the most reliable (in your estimation) data from among different datasets, you need to set the priority Grunt uses to merge the records.

Grunt presumes that every appraiser will consider their own verification work to be the most reliable data known to them.
Since Archived data presumably comes from the user as the original source, Archive files would also represent their own data.
If the user specifically selects another file, they consider the data in that specified file to be important.
Affiliate data sets are then merged in the Affiliations Editor priority defined by the user.