What is project validation?

Mobile Project Center provides a project validation function that verifies project integrity issues such as a missing project extent and incorrect field settings. The validation function runs automatically when a project is saved, but you can also run it manually at any time. The purpose of running validation against your current project is to make sure there are no potential issues when the project is deployed to your field devices.

There are two categories of project issues: errors and warnings. If errors exist in a project, it will not function correctly; if warnings exist, the project functions but with less usability.

Using the Validation function in Mobile Project Center

When you save a project (File > Save or File > Save As), the Validation function runs automatically. You can also run it manually by clicking Project > Validate in the main window. The Validation Result panel appears and lists the identified issues (if any).

When validation is complete, the Validation Result panel appears at the bottom of the window. The panel has the following two tabs:

When you fix an issue using the quick fix tool, the issue is automatically removed from the Validation Result panel. If you fix the issue, re-run the Validate function to verify that the issue has been fixed.

Severity of project issues

Mobile Project Center organizes potential issues into the following severity groups:

Sources of project issues

Errors and warnings are categorized by their sources. This information helps you identify the component of your mobile project that caused an issue. The types of sources, and a general solution for each, are described in the following list, but you can get more details about an issue using the Detail tab:

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