About study validation and deployment

Study validation and deployment is the process of:

1. Preparing a study to be moved from the design environment to a test or production environment.
2. Moving the study into the test or production environment.

Studies only

You can validate and deploy a study but not a library.

Deployment packages

You must validate a study before you can create a deployment package. The process of validation checks for conditions that would make it impossible to deploy the study. When you validate a study, the Central Designer application creates a validation baseline.

Frequency of validation

Validate as often as needed to make sure that the design will be deployable. When deciding how frequently to validate, consider that validation requires you to save the study.

For validation to succeed, a study must contain the following study objects at a minimum:

• One study event.
• One form for each study event.
• One item for each form.
• A label for each codelist item.