Validating the Workflow Process

The following procedure describes how to validate a Workflow Process. This task is a step in Process of Testing a Workflow Process.

To validate a Workflow Process

1. In the Object Explorer, locate and select the Workflow Process 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, 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 Workflow Process 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 Workflow Process 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 Workflow Process. You can correct or ignore a validation error, as follows:

     • If the Rule column in the Validate dialog box contains the number 98, then you must correct the problem. The validation engine uses the number 98 to identify an error that you must correct and cannot ignore.

     • If the Rule column in the Validate dialog box does not contain 98, then you should evaluate the possible problem, but you are not required to make a change.

     Not every error is fatal. Some errors are only warnings. For more information, see Troubleshooting Problems That Occur During Validation.

   • 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.