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<h1 class="topictitle1" id="title">Selecting code validators</h1>
<div id="taskbody"><div id="shortdesc">You can select specific validators to
run during manual and build code validation. You can set each validator to
run on manual validation, build validation, both, or neither. </div>
<div class="section" id="context"><anchor id="topictop"></anchor><p>To choose the validators that you
want to use for a project:</p>
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<li class="stepexpand"><span>Click <span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Window</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Preferences</span>
</span>.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>In the Preferences window, click <span class="uicontrol">Validation</span> in
the left pane.</span> The Validation page of the Preferences window
lists the validators available in your project and their settings.
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Clear the <span class="uicontrol">Suspend all validators</span> check box.</span>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>If you want to set individual validation settings for one or more
of your projects, select the <span class="uicontrol">Allow projects to override these preference
settings</span> check box.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>In the list of validators, select the check boxes next to each
validator you want to use at the global level.</span> Each validator has
a check box to specify whether it is used on manual validation or on a build.<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> If
you deselect any validator that is currently selected, any messages associated
with the deselected validator will be removed from the task list.</div>
</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Choose an alternate implementation for a validator by clicking
the button in the <span class="uicontrol">Settings</span> column.</span> Not all
validators have alternate implementations.</li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">OK</span>.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>If you want to set individual validation settings for one or more
of your projects, see <a href="tjvalglobalpref.html" title="For a given project, you can override&#10;the global validation preferences.">Overriding global validation preferences</a>.</span> Like
the global validation preferences, you can set validators at the project level
to run on manual validation, build validation, both, or neither.</li>
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<div><div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br />
<div><a href="../topics/tjvaldisable.html" title="You can disable one or more validators individually or disable validation entirely. Also, you can set validation settings for your entire workspace and for individual projects.">Disabling validation</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 according to the validation settings.">Manually validating code</a></div>
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