Validating your Project

Presently validation is not performed automatically when you attempt to save a project to the ALMA Archive (with this exception of a few very basic items needed to identify projects again). This is planned to happen, but is not in place yet. (At the moment the ability to save incomplete/invalid projects might be advantageous in any case). Thus you should perform validation explicitly. Simple press the Validate button (the tick mark), or select File $\rightarrow$ Validate . The project will now be validiated - this may take some time for a large project - and a report will appear in the window tab entitled "Problems" which may be found in the ``Feedback'' pane.

Validation problems are currently either Warnings or Errors. Errors should be fixed as they may affect proper execution. Errors are depicted with a red circle containing a cross, warnings are a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark. To find the target (or other item) that contains an invalid setting try double clicking on the relevant line in the problem window. The Project tree should expand, highlighting the offending item, and the editing window should show for that item.



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The ALMA OT Team, 2012 May 25