You can specify which records Essbase ignores by setting rejection criteria. Rejection criteria are string and number conditions that, when met by one or more fields within a record, cause Essbase to reject the record. You can define one or more rejection criteria. If no field in the record meets the rejection criteria, Essbase loads the record. For example, to reject Actual data from a data source and load only Budget data, create a rejection criterion to reject records in which the first field is Actual.