10 Managing Validations
Validations enable business rules to be enforced on versions, hierarchies, nodes, and properties. Validations can be run in either real time or batch, or both modes. Real-time validations are run at the time of modification and prevent changes from being saved if the action would violate the rules being enforced. Batch validations can be explicitly run before or after edits are made to identify data conditions that are invalid and need to be addressed.