Workspace Validation

You can use the Validate Tool to validate Workspaces including the following:

All objects changed in the current Workspace.
All objects changed in a particular version of the current Workspace.
All objects changed in all versions of the current Workspace.

Only the selected (or current) Workspace will be validated – child Workspaces will not be validated. The following procedure shows how to use the Validate option on the Workspace Toolbar to validate a Workspace.

To validate a Workspace

Go to the Workspace Dashboard and open the Workspace that you want to validate.
Click Validate on the Workspace Toolbar. Note the following:
- The Validate option on the Workspace Toolbar will be disabled if the Workspace that you want to validate is not currently open.
- If you select a row in the Workspace Explorer that does not match the currently open Workspace, then the Validate option on the Workspace Toolbar will also be disabled. Hence make sure to select the row in the Workspace Explorer that matches the currently open Workspace.
The Validate dialog box opens – see Elements of the Validate Dialog Box.
In the Validate dialog box, click Options.

The Validation Options dialog box opens where you can review the validation rules that are available and specify which rules to enforce or ignore during validation. For more information, see Elements of the Validation Options Dialog Box.
In the Validation Options dialog box:
1. Select the check box next to each rule that you want to enforce and deselect the check box next to each rule that you want to 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 and 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 Workspace 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.
```
In the Validate dialog, click Start to start the validation process.

Siebel starts validating the object and returns the results in the Validate 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 (Warning or Error) for the object.
- 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.

Troubleshooting Workspace Validation

Because there can be more than one version of a Workspace, you can validate either the most current version of the Workspace or all versions of the Workspace. As a result, note the following when validating Workspaces:

You will be prompted to answer the following message before being allowed to continue with the validation process if a Workspace has previous versions:

<-- Workspace Validation Options -->

You've selected Workspace dev_sadmin_rep_validation version 4.
Please select one of the following validation options:
- Objects changed in selected version only.
- Objects changed in this and all earlier versions of this Workspace.

                                        OK / Cancel

If a Workspace contains no changed objects, then there is nothing to validate so you will be prompted to select a different Workspace to validate. For example:
```
No changes have yet been made in this Workspace.
```