Validating a Process App

Before a process app can be published or deployed to Application Repository or exported to a file, it must pass validation. As you work with your process app, you can validate as you work to catch potential problems.

To validate the open process app:

In the Quick Access Toolbar, click the Validate button. Alternatively, click Validate from the Composer menu, or press Alt and then V, or press Ctrl+Shift+V.

Details about the validation are displayed in the Validation Results. You can use the filtering options at the bottom to choose which types of message you want to view. (See Limiting Validation Results.)

By default, the name of any design element that contains errors appears in red in App Explorer. You can disable this feature or change the color on the General tab of the SBM Composer Options.

Here are some typical situations that generate error and warning validation messages:

• You used a process app, application, or table with a name that already exists in a deployment environment.
• One or more references in a process app are unresolved.
• SBM Composer detects that a process app or a feature in a process app is incompatible with on-demand deployment. You receive these error messages if you are working in on-demand mode, or if you are working in on-premise mode and the Include validation for On-Demand compatibility option is selected on the General tab of the SBM Composer Options dialog box, and if one or more of the following conditions is true:
  • Scripts or triggers are included an application in the process app.
  • A Publish or External Post transition is included in an application workflow.
  • A Post transition with an Item link type that includes "triggers" is included in an application workflow.
  • A transition that uses a Trigger action type is included in an application workflow.
  • A state that has a transition action with a Trigger Received condition is included in an application workflow.
  • The database name for a table name exceeds the maximum number of characters that are allowed.
  • A table in the process app includes a Folder field, Company field, Contact field, Resolution Summary field, or Resolution Description field.
  • Various project and table privileges are selected for a role (for example, View Item if Contact).