Comparison of Default Text against String Input Field

[KScoble]

Hi all,

I have recently been playing around with some solutions on a sim on how to compare a users 
input text in a record, to see if the text entered is the same as or similar to the default text normally

auto-filled in the field. and was wondering on some ideas on how to approach this?

For Example:
String Field Default Text: 
"Please fill out the following:
Step 1:
Step 2:
Step 3:"

But say the user enters a few symbols or enters a space:

" Please fill out the following
Step 1: 
Step 2: $$
Step 3:"

I was wondering would predictive intelligence be able to tell me how similar the entered text is compared to the default value? for example: "Text is 95% Similar"?

Would love to hear some others thoughts on checking default text when a user can do small input amounts to bypass easy checks such as: String field -> is or contains -> Default Text. 

[Allen Andreas · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I don't believe Predictive Intelligence would cover what you're talking about here and there really isn't any other out of box way to do what you're asking. You can review custom options, but it would require scripting and such. There's a bit more complexity here because you aren't comparing two field values directly on the table, you're comparing a field value to a default value of a table field.

For similarity and the percentage and stuff, here's some discussion around that: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10473745/compare-strings-javascript-return-of-likely 

[Allen Andreas]

Thanks for marking my reply as Helpful.

I know it may not be what you wanted to hear, haha, but if you have any other questions, let us know?

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Thanks and take care! 🙂

[KScoble]

Yeah, Haha. 
Do you think a predictive intelligence model for similarity of entered text against completed/accepted records would be a good solution instead? It may be a bit opened-ended though. 🙂

[Allen Andreas]

Hi,

I believe that will only find similar records with the same text to then use that process towards automation or assisted automation. Such as...a new record is created with a specific description, similarity solutions will evaluate to find matches and then with the highest probability, point towards similar resolutions.

So I see where you're going with it, but that's not what this would do. I only think that would apply if you never train the model on anything else...but this one use case. So then you create a few default text records and possible train it on that for future records and if it equals those with a higher probability then do 'x'.

So...there's a possibility, but I think you may skew the model a bit as it would lean more towards this one use case.