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| <h1 class="topictitle1">Enabling automatic code validation</h1> |
| <div><p>If you want validation to occur automatically during an automatic |
| incremental build that occurs as a result of a resource change, you can enable |
| automatic code validation.</p> |
| <div class="section"> <p>If automatic incremental builds are disabled, automatic code |
| validation cannot be enabled.</p> |
| <p>To enable automatic code validation:</p> |
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| <ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>On the workbench menu bar, click <span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Window</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Preferences</span></span>.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>In the left frame of the Preferences window, click <span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">General</span> > <span class="uicontrol">Workspace</span></span>.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Select the <span class="uicontrol">Build automatically</span> check box.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">OK</span>.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>In the Project Explorer view, right-click your project and click <span class="uicontrol">Properties</span>.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>On the <span class="uicontrol">Validation</span> page, select the <span class="uicontrol">Override |
| validation preferences</span> check box to override global preferences |
| for this project.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Ensure that the validators that you want to run are selected.</span></li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Select the <span class="uicontrol">Run validation automatically when you save |
| changes to <var class="varname"><project_name></var> resources</span> check |
| box. This check box is only enabled when both of the following conditions |
| are met:</span> <ul><li>The <span class="uicontrol">Build automatically</span> check box is selected in |
| the workbench Preferences dialog</li> |
| <li>The selected project supports automatic validation</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li class="stepexpand"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">OK</span>.</span></li> |
| </ol> |
| <div class="section"> <p>If any errors are detected, an error or warning message is logged |
| in the Problems view. These messages cannot be removed manually. Once the |
| problem is fixed that caused the messages to be generated, the messages are |
| automatically removed. You can, however, use the Filter Tasks wizard to temporarily |
| filter out any messages in the Problems view until you can fix the associated |
| problems. To open the Filter Tasks wizard, click the Filters icon in the title |
| bar of the Problems view. Alternatively, if you do not want to see any problems |
| detected by a particular validator, on a particular project, you can disable |
| the validator in the project's Properties page. When a validator is disabled, |
| all messages from that validator are removed.</p> |
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| <div class="familylinks"> |
| <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="../topics/tjval.html">Validating code in enterprise applications</a></div> |
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| <div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br /> |
| <div><a href="../topics/tjvalbuild.html" title="You can enable validation to occur during a build of a project.">Enabling build validation</a></div> |
| <div><a href="../topics/tjvaldisable.html" title="You can disable one or more validators for a project.">Disabling a validator</a></div> |
| <div><a href="../topics/tjvalglobalpref.html" title="For a given project, you can override the global validation preferences.">Overriding global validation preferences</a></div> |
| <div><a href="../topics/tjvalmanual.html" title="When you run a manual validation, all resources in the selected project are validated with the validators that are selected on the Validation page of the project Properties dialog.">Manually validating code</a></div> |
| <div><a href="../topics/tjvalselect.html" title="You can select specific validators to run for a project during manual and automatic code validation.">Selecting code validators</a></div> |
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