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Rule Inspection

Overview

The Rule Inspection panel of the Console tool window allows inspecting rules and lists.

Note

This panel is only available for the Enterprise Edition.

The left part of the panel shows the results of inspections that found one or more issues, while the right part, for each inspection, gives:

  • A description
  • Buttons to control the inspection
  • (For groups of issues) The detail of the issues found by the inspection

In the left part of the panel, the issues found by each inspection are grouped. Depending on the inspection, the group can contain references to files or rules.
For example, the Orphan Rule File inspection, when it finds issues, contains a group containing in turn all the orphaned rule files. The Full Rule Equality inspection, on the other hand, contains a group for each rule that is identical in one or more files and, within the group, an issue for each instance of the rule.
When a group of issues is selected, the right part of the panel shows a Details area containing links that bring to the file or portion of the file the issue refers to.

Toolbar

Icon Name Description
Expand All Expand all the nodes of the tree
Collapse All Collapse all the nodes of the tree
Search: box Specify search criteria
Reset Reset the search criteria
Find Next Search continue to the next match
Inspect Start inspections
Suppressed Inspections and Files Open the Studio Settings window, Rule Inspection section

Mouse commands

One click on the expand button at the left of a report row expands it to show its contents, one click on the collapse button collapses its contents.
Double-clicking a detail row in the inspection report opens the file where the issue was found and highlights it.

Inspection control buttons

When an inspections finds issues, by selecting it or one of its issues in the left part of the panel, the following inspection control buttons become available in the right part:

  • Suppress current inspection type for:

    • Current project...: the inspection will not be performed anymore on the current project.
    • Current file in current project... (only for issues): the inspection will not be performed anymore on the file the issue refers to.
    • All projects...: the inspection will not be performed anymore on all projects.

  • Ignore current inspection instances for

    • Current run...: the selected item (an issue, a group of issues or an entire inspection) will be hidden, however the inspection will be performed again when selecting Inspect on the toolbar.
    • Ignore for project...: the selected item (an issue, a group of issues or an entire inspection) will be hidden.

All inspection-control actions can be reverted by changing Rule Inspection settings in the Studio Settings window.

Status bar

The status bar displays the number of inspections performed.