Validating process applications and toolkits
Use validation functions to fix errors and refine process applications and toolkits as you build them.
IBM® Process Designer includes client-side and server-side validation functions that alert you to issues in your process applications and toolkits. Validation provides feedback about the following types of issues:
- Broken references, such as missing implementations for activities
- Problems with parameter mappings
- Duplicate names and other naming violations
One of the server-side validation functions that
IBM Business
Process Manager supports is JavaScript syntax
validation in script activities and variable initialization in service flows and processes. This
function validates JavaScript syntax when you import process applications or toolkits, or when you
modify JavaScript code. JavaScript syntax validation checks changes that occur only after it is
enabled. It doesn't work retroactively, meaning that existing snippets that are unchanged are not
parsed after the function is enabled. For example, if you change some JavaScript code or import a
process application or toolkit, JavaScript syntax validation checks only the changed scripts and
imported process applications and toolkits but not unchanged scripts or process applications or
toolkits. Server-side Javascript syntax validation is enabled by default. However, in case of
performance issues, you might choose to turn it off. For more information, see Disabling server-side JavaScript syntax validation.
- At the snapshot level: In the Process Center console, in the Process
Apps or Toolkits tab, click the process application or toolkit,
and under a snapshot, expand the errors and warnings section.
Click the Open in Designer
link to open the artifact with the error. The link is available only for those artifacts that can be
edited in the web Process Designer. For more
information see Where to edit Process Designer artifacts. - At the artifact or project level: In the Process Designer
footer, click Validation errors and warnings
.