When you make changes to a schema, you must test the changes
with the supported clients in your HCL Compass environment.
About this task
If you have a significant
amount of design, development, and modification work to do, save your
work often. Click to save the changes without checking in the schema.
This action does not validate your changes, and you cannot upgrade
the test database with a saved, checked-out version of the schema.
Note that you cannot cancel the schema checkout after
you run a test configuration during a schema editing session.
Procedure
To test a schema:
- Start the Designer.
-
In the HCL Compass Schema Repository
Explorer view, select the schema version that you want to test.
- Click to select
a test configuration to run.
The Run dialog opens.
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Select a test configuration to use and then click Run.
If you have not created a test configuration, right-click on Compass and then click
New to create one.
Your schema changes are saved and validated, and errors are displayed in the
Console view. The Designer updates your test database to the new schema version.
- Test the schema with the supported clients.
- On Windows™ systems, the HCL Compass Client starts so that you can test the schema to see
whether it works as expected. The version of the client that opens (HCL Compass Client, HCL Compass for Windows, or HCL Compass Web) depends on
the client you specified on the preferences page.
- For Linux™, the UNIX™ system, or Web clients, you must log on to the test database. For Linux and the UNIX system, pay special
attention to the layout of forms and the execution of scripts.