Validating a Test and Fixing Errors

Before you can publish a test, you must validate it to make sure there are no test errors. To do this, click Validate Test in the test toolbar. If the test is already valid, this button turns gray and displays Test is Valid. You cannot validate a test if any of its items have unsaved changes.

Table 1 explains how to resolve the validation errors that may appear.

Table 1: Possible Validation Errors in a Test

Validation Error	How to Fix This Error
You must make some changes to this item	This error occurs when you insert the copy of an item from an item library but you do not make any edits to the item’s content. To fix this, click Edit in the item toolbar for the copied item and update the content so that it is not exactly identical to that of the original item in the library.
A test must have at least one item	This error occurs when the test does not contain any items. To fix this, add at least one item to the test.
This item is in a stimulus in one test, and stand-alone in another	This error may occur when you add a library item to a stimulus. Stimuli cannot be linked to items that already exist in an item library. To fix this, remove the item and add it to a new test page instead of the stimulus. This error may also occur when you add a library item to a test without its linked stimulus. To fix this, remove the item from the test and add its linked stimulus instead. The linked item should be added automatically when you add its stimulus.
This stimulus contains no items	This error occurs when a stimulus is added to the test but no items are linked to the stimulus. To fix this, click the stimulus thumbnail, then click the button directly below it to create a linked item.
This item is under review and can't be published	This error occurs when you add an item that has been submitted to a shared item library but has not been approved. To fix this, you must remove the item from the test.
You do not have permission to publish this item	This error occurs when you have added a shared item that you do not have permission to publish. To fix this, you must remove the item from the test. If you still wish to add an item like this to this test, you should create a copy of the shared item.