Maintenance Violations

Maintenance - Find violations of rules

With this form you ma easily search description items, that do not fulfill certain requirements. With the Mandatory descriptors tab you may find descriptions where data for mandatory descriptors are missing. With the Exclusive descriptors tab you may find descriptions that contain multiple states for exclusive descriptors. In the Applicability rules tab you may descriptions that violate rules administered in the Descriptorapplicability data. In the Ambigious descriptions tab you may search for ambigious description titles.  

 

Jan 14, 2025

Subsections of Maintenance Violations

Maintenance Ambiguous

Maintenance - Ambiguous description titles

In DiversityDescriptions the description titles may be ambiguous, even within one project. It depends on the informal project strategies if duplicate description titels shall be accepted, therefore there is no kind of highlighting. With this form you can easily find all descriptions with ambigious titles within a project.

After selecting the Project click on Check for violations and all found description items are listed in the table (see image above). If you select the option Ignore same state, mutiple occurances of the same state, e.g. when modifier of frequency values have been selected, will be ignored. By selecting an entry and clicking the button Inspect dataset you may view that dataset in a separate window.

You may select or deselect all entries of the result list by clicking the buttons Select all rsp. Select none. To save the selected table entries in a tab-separated text file click on the Export data button. Click Close form and check list in database to return to the main program with the affected descriptions.

 

May 3, 2024

Maintenance Exclusive

Maintenance - Exclusive descriptors

If a descriptor is marked as “exclusive”, in each description item only one categorical state value for this descriptor should be present. When you are editing a description in the Contiuousview violations of this rule are usually highlighted by a yellow background color. With this form you can easily find all descriptions violating the exclusivity condition.

After selecting the Project click on Check for violations and all found description items are listed in the table (see image above). If you select the option Ignore same state, mutiple occurances of the same state, e.g. when modifier of frequency values have been selected, will be ignored. By selecting an entry and clicking the button Inspect dataset you may view that dataset in a separate window.

You may select or deselect all entries of the result list by clicking the buttons Select all rsp. Select none. To save the selected table entries in a tab-separated text file click on the Export data button. Click Close form and check list in database to return to the main program with the affected descriptions.

 

Jan 14, 2025

Maintenance Mandatory

Maintenance - Mandatory descriptors

If a descriptor is marked as “mandatory”, in each description item a value for this descriptor should be present. When you are editing a description in the Contiuous view those missing data as usually highlighted by a yellow background color. With this form you can easily find all descriptions with missing mandatory descriptor data.

After selecting the Project click on Check for violations and all found description items are listed in the table (see image above). You may restrict the query to selected Descriptor types. If you select the option Evaluate status data, any present descriptor status, e.g. “To be checked” or “Data missing”, will be treated as if descriptor data were present. By selecting an entry and clicking the button Inspect dataset you may view that dataset in a separate window.

You may select or deselect all entries of the result list by clicking the buttons Select all rsp. Select none. To save the selected table entries in a tab-separated text file click on the Export data button. Click Close form and check list in database to return to the main program with the affected descriptions.