To validate P&ID project drawings

1. Do one of the following:
   • To validate a specific drawing or all the drawings in a specific folder, in the tree view, click the drawing or the drawing folder. On the ribbon, click Home tab Validate panel Validate.
   • To validate all the drawings in a project folder, in the tree view, click the project folder. On the ribbon, click Home tab Validate panel Validate.

   The Validation Progress dialog box is displayed.

   Note: The Validation Progress dialog box displays the validation progress for each drawing being checked as well as the overall progress for all drawings being validated in the current session (n of n format).
2. When the Validation Progress dialog box closes, do one of the following:
   • If none of the drawings have validation errors, the Validation Complete message is displayed. Click OK.

   The drawings are validated and the validation process is complete.

   • If there are errors in one or more drawings, the Validation Summary Window is displayed. The validated drawings are displayed in the tree view. In the Validation Summary window, the Details pane displays the following information about the validation:
     • Number of errors identified
     • Number of errors ignored
     • Total number of errors

   Go to the next step.

3. To see information about each error, in the Validation Summary tree, click an error node. The drawing zooms in on the problem object. The Details pane displays the following information about the error:
   • Error type
   • Error action