The Designer supports you during modelling by displaying notes for invalid actions giving you advice on how to fix the errors.
You cannot deploy and start a process service that still has validation errors. You need to resolve them first.
The Designer constantly validates the contents in his editors. The validation results are displayed in the Validation panel. The panel is available in all editors:
If you use the panel preset, the validation panel is the second tab in the lower left corner. To return to the panel preset, go to the user preferences and use the button Reset Panels. Refer to Customizing Editors and Panels for detailed information about panel management in general. | |
In the Validation panel, all problematic contents of the service are displayed, regardless of which editor they occur in. The list is sorted by error types: First, the errors are displayed, followed by warnings and infos. |
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The validation panel assists you during modeling. It indicates erroneous modeling and also gives advice on how to correct the errors.
Error Types
Three different types of validation messages are possible:
| Icon | Error Type | Description |
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| Info | The info icon indicates a problem in the model. Use the information given in the validation panel to check the mentioned elements in your model. It will still be possible to compile and deploy the project. |
| Warning | Warnings are displayed if the compiler reports a warning but you can deploy the service nevertheless. You should check your execution model anyway. |
| Error | If an error is thrown, deployment is not possible. Check the mentioned parts of the execution model and eliminate the cause of the error to enable model execution. |
Using the Displayed Information
| The validation messages describe the error and thus also provide information on how to solve the problem. | |
The items in the validation panel are links. If you click on a message...
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| This also works vice versa: Click an element on the pane to highlight all messages concerning this element. | |
It also applies to the content of the execution pane. If you click on a message...
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| The behavior in the Mapping Editor is the same. Click on a message to highlight the affected element or object flow in the editor. | |
The validation panel is available in all editors and shows all validation messages, no matter where they occur. Example: You are working in the Form Editor. The following message is displayed in the Validation panel: The input parameter node 'message' (parameter = 'message') has no outgoing flows. Where is it used? You want to know which input parameter node is meant, so you click on the message. | |
| The BPMN Editor opens in a new tab, the affected parameter node 'message' and the corresponding user task Show Approval Message are highlighted. | |
Sometimes you want to share a validation message with another developer. Highlight the displayed message (or the part you want to share) with mouse over or a double click. Copy the highlighted content to your clipboard with CTRL+C. Use CTRL+V to paste it, e.g. to an email or a chat room. |
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