Validating a Task

This task is a step in Process of Testing a Task.

The Validate Tool is an error correction tool that enforces the semantic consistency of a task. You can use the Validate Tool before you inspect and deliver a task to ensure that there are no configuration errors. For example, you can use the Validate Tool to make sure an error process does not include an error process. The following procedure describes how to validate a task.

To validate a task

1. In the Object Explorer, locate and select the task that you want to validate.

2. Click the Applet Menu (the cogwheel icon) and then select the Validate option.

3. In the Validate dialog box that opens, click Options.

4. In the Validation Options dialog box that opens, review the validation rules that are available and specify which rules to enforce or ignore during validation:

   1. Select/deselect the check box next to each rule that you want to enforce/ignore.

   2. (Optional) Click Advanced Options to open the Advanced Options dialog where you can select objects to exclude from (object type, Workspace or batch) validation.

   3. (Optional) Once the list of rules to enforce or ignore is set, click Save to save the information to a text file. This helps if you need to review or share the information later with your team.

   4. (Optional) Select the check box next to the following options as required:

      • Do Not Report Warnings. Select this option to report only errors and ignore warnings.

      • Abort Validation After <x_number> Errors. Select this option and then enter a number (for example 5) so that object validation will stop after <x_number> of errors are identified.

   5. Click OK.

      Note that if you select Ignore All or deselect all the rules in the Validation Options dialog, then you have chosen to ignore the rules for this task and will receive the following message:

      There are no rules currently enforced. You may update the list 
      of rules to be enforced from the 'Options' button.

5. In the Validation dialog box, click Start to start the validation process.

   Siebel starts validating the task and returns the results in the Validation dialog when finished:

   • For example:

     Total tests failed: 0 or

     Total tests failed: 3

   • Validation Errors and Warnings appear in the Validate list. Each row in the Validate list identifies a rule violation for the task. Not every error is fatal. Some errors are only warnings. For more information, see Errors That the Validate Tool Detects.

   • Select an error in the Validate list and then click Go To to drill down on the object that causes the error.

   • (Optional) Click Save As to save the validation results to a validation.log file on your local machine.

     Depending on your browser naming conventions, the validation results will be saved to validation(1).log if validation.log already exists or validation(2).log if validation(1).log already exists, and so on.

   For more information about validating objects including batch validation, see Using Siebel Tools.