Single Object Type Validation

You can use the Validate Tool to validate a single object or multiple objects within an object type. The following procedure shows how to validate objects using the Object List Editor.

To validate objects using the Object List Editor

1. In the Object Explorer, locate and select one or more objects of the same type to validate.

   You can only select objects from a single object type to validate. For example, select multiple Business Components or Applets or Applet Controls. You cannot select a Business Component AND an Applet.

   You can select child objects to validate (for example, the Fields of a Business Component or the Methods of a Business Service), and if so, only the Fields and their child objects will be validated. The entire Business Component will not be validated.

   For more information, see Locating Object Definitions in the Object List Editor.

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

   The Validate dialog box opens – see Elements of the Validate Dialog Box.

3. 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.

4. In the Validation Options dialog box:

   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 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 object and will receive the following message:

      There are no rules currently enforced for the selected object(s).
      You may update the list of rules to be enforced from the 'Options' button.

5. 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.