Pre-validate

Pre-validate checks your survey against a set of predefined automated business rules to identify potential inconsistencies in your survey. It is recommended you pre-validate before submission.

Landonline can’t always pre-validate the content of fields such as free text and cannot validate attachments.

Learn about key differences with Legacy Landonline 

See also: Landonline Pre-validation Report Explanation and Landonline Accuracy Rule Tests run during pre-validation

Overview

  • A pre-validation can be run while you are working on different parts of the same survey.
  • If you perform more than 1 pre-validation on a survey, Landonline replaces the previous report with the new pre-validation results.
  • If the underlying data is in error and you would like Toitū Te Whenua to inspect the data, create an exception request.

What to do

  1. Select the Pre-validation icon in the left-hand workflow control bar.
    Selecting the Pre-validate icon opens up the required panel.
  2. The Pre-validation panel will display. The first time you open the survey, the Run pre-validation icon will display in 2 places: the centre of the panel and the top panel bar.
    A screen will appear with the prompt to Run pre-validation.
  3. Run pre-validation. It will display when the last pre-validation was run, by who, and the results under 2 tabs: Tests and Adjustments.
    The pre-validation panel has two tabs - Tests and adjustments.
    • The Tests tab will show if a survey passes or fails validation. If it fails, a red icon with ‘Preventing submission’ will display. Scroll down the pane to view the areas preventing submission. This could include:
      • survey capture issues (such as incomplete referenced marks)
      • warnings (an orange icon shows)
      • additional relevant information (a blue information icon shows)
      • compliant areas which have passed (a green tick icon shows) including plan generation.

      To get detailed feedback on all the error messages, see the pre-validation report explanation document.
      Landonline pre-validation report explanation for CSR 2021 v7.0
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    • The Adjustments tab will provide feedback on the survey against the survey capture details - Minimally constrained failures and fully constrained failures.
      • The adjustments are mathematical evaluations of the relationships between the new marks captured, and how they compare with the mark and vector information already in Landonline.
  4. Run further pre-validations by selecting Run pre-validation on the top panel bar.
    Run a pre-validation using the icon on the top right of the panel.
    • The pre-validation process starts immediately, and a message appears in the panel to say the pre-validation is running.
    • You can keep working on the survey while waiting for it to complete. 
  5. When the pre-validation is complete an updated summary of results will appear.
    • Errors listed under ‘Preventing submission’ must be corrected before submission is possible.
  6. To get a copy of any pre-validation results, select the Copy to clipboard icon next to the relevant section header.
    Find the Copy to Clipboard icon next to each header.
    • The pre-validation information will appear in your computer’s clipboard.
      • Paste the content into a document, such as a Google Doc or MS Word file.
      • If you want to keep a copy of this information, you can edit it and save it in your system.
  7. To get a full pre-validation report, select the Download icon on the top panel bar.
    • The information will download in plain text format which can then be pasted and edited in a document such as a Google Doc or MS Word file.
    Select the Download icon to obtain a full pre-validation report.