About Validating Product Configurations

The Validate Configuration command enables Product Managers and System Engineers to validate all rules of the configuration with the currently selected options. The Validate Configuration link is not available if the product configuration is in the Active state and if the value of the Validation Status attribute is equal to "Not Validated."

Related Topics
About Product Configurations
Viewing Product Configurations
Validating Product Configurations

During a product configuration session, the rules validation process considers rules attached to the selected product, and rules attached to any of the selected features. The following rules are considered during the validation of a product configuration:

  • Rules related to the product. All the configuration rules that are directly attached to the product for which the product configuration is being created are validated.
  • Rules related to the first level features. All the compatibility and quantity rules attached to the first level features are validated.
  • Rules related to any selected subfeature. All the configuration and quantity rules attached to any selected subfeature, rules attached to its parent feature in the product structure, rules attached to the parent feature or the parent feature of any selected subfeature, and so on, are validated.

All rules must be validated for a product configuration to be valid. If any one of the rules fails, then that product configuration is invalid.