Validate Business Process

Before validating a Business Process (BP), make sure the BP meets the following requirements:

• The BP contains the Start and End elements.
• The BP includes at least one task element.
• If all Records should move from one step to another without any conditions, connect these steps directly without a decision rule.
• All flow elements have a name and parameters set.
• The Start element has an outgoing connection.
• The End element has at least one incoming connection.
• Each task, rule, or sub-process has at least one incoming and one outgoing connection.
• All BP tasks use valid column values from the input data file. If the BP includes a Manual Task designed with legacy Task Designer, make sure to use valid Answer codes from preceding elements.

Start validation

Once you designed a BP flow and checked it against the above requirements, click the Validate button.

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For validating a schema-based BP and contracts, refer to Configure input and output contracts in Business Process steps.

Investigate validation errors

If a BP validation detects errors, warning messages are displayed above the toolbar.

Click the error messages one by one. The BP steps or connections associated with the errors are highlighted in red:

Depending on the shown error, you can proceed in one of the following ways to fix the errors:

• Reconnect: drag the incoming or outgoing connection. For details, see the Add connections guide.
• Define: give a name to the appropriate task, set a design, parameters, and save the task.
• Delete