Validating an orchestration
An orchestration must be valid (complete and correct) before you can publish it to the Integration Appliance. Use the validation feature in Studio to validate your orchestration.
Before you begin
To be valid an orchestration must met the following requirements:
- Have a starter activity or a Pick activity
as the first activity. Starter activities are denoted in the Activities tab
with the blue orchestration icon and a downward arrow
. The first activity in each branch of the Pick activity must be a starter activity.
Note: All starter activities are represented in Studio by the inbound icon, except for the Schedule Job activity.
- Variables must be initialized before they are used. This includes variables that are initialized in the branches of an If.. Then activity. The variable must be initialized in all branches.
Procedure
Example
To validate all the orchestrations in the project complete
the following steps:
- In the Project tab, click Revalidate
Project
. All the orchestrations in the project are validated. If an orchestration is invalid the invalid orchestration icon
is displayed next to the orchestration in the Project tab. If the orchestration is invalid, click on the orchestration to view the errors in the Validation Results list.
- Select the Validate Project
toolbar button. All the orchestrations in the project are validated. If an orchestration is invalid the invalid orchestration icon
is displayed next to the orchestration in the Project tab. If the orchestration is invalid, click on the orchestration to view the errors in the Validation Results list.
What to do next
Validation icons are displayed throughout the orchestration providing visual clues to potential problem areas or to provide further information.
In Studio, the following validation icons are
displayed:
Warning icon
- Click warning icons to learn what information is required to complete the configuration of the entity in the pane. For example, in an activity's checklist, the warning icon appears next the endpoint if an endpoint has not yet been specified.
Information icon
- Click information icons to learn details about a entity in the pane, for example why a button has been disabled.
Checkmark icon
- Checkmark icon is displayed when all the information for a entity in the pane has been specified. For example, in an activity's checklist, the checkmark icon appears next to the endpoint if a valid endpoint has been specified.
A warning icon displays in the upper-right corner
of many panes (for example, the Endpoint configuration
pane). You can click this icon to toggle the warning icons ON or OFF
displayed in the pane. If turned OFF, the warning icons are not displayed
in the pane.