Custom Validation Severity for Viewpoint Validate and Dimension Export

Custom validations provide an additional severity option to control whether a business rule is enforced as an error, warning, or is ignored when validating a viewpoint and exporting a dimension. Warning validations can be used to identify data conditions which may be noteworthy but do not need to be resolved to ensure data integrity. Ignored validations will not run during a viewpoint validate or dimension export operation. Depending on your dimension configuration, when validations are run during a dimension export the export process will proceed if there are warnings but will be prevented if any errors are found.

Business Benefit: Returning warnings for custom validations makes users aware of potential data issues but does not encourage them to fix the issues. Ignoring custom validations when validating a viewpoint or exporting a dimension can eliminate results for known issues and reduce the time required to complete the operation.

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