6 Checking In Objects and Setting Their Validation Status
Checking in all objects is required. You can also set the validation status.
Setting objects' validation status is optional. It does not change any behavior and the status is not visible in the user interface or to end users in any way. However, it may be useful for your internal testing and validation purposes to use this tool. In addition, the API that upgrades objects' validation status first checks in all objects and can be used to simplify that task.
The validation API checks in the object you specify in the input parameter PI_VALOBJ, and all the objects it contains (if any), and upgrades its validation status. If you specify the Adapter Domain in PI_VALOBJ, the API attempts to check in and upgrade all the objects in your adapter.
Note:
The following conditions prevent a successful validation:
- The validation of a particular object fails if the object is checked out by a user different from the person running the validation API. In this case, the person who has the object checked out must either explicitly check in the object or run the validation API.
- The validation process fails if the Work Area is included in the process (which it is if you have specified either the Adapter Domain, the Adapter Area, or the Work Area itself) and does not have a validation status of Production. Use the API CDR_PUB_DF_WORKAREA.UPDATEUSAGEINTENT to change it to Production.
For more details, see the following: