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title: "Validate and Publish a Screen"
slug: "validate-and-publish-a-screen"
updated: 2024-09-19T13:04:39Z
published: 2024-09-19T13:04:39Z
canonical: "docs.processmaker.com/validate-and-publish-a-screen"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.processmaker.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Validate and Publish a Screen

## Validate a Screen

Before publishing a Screen, use the **Screen** Validation feature to ensure that each Screen control has a valid configuration.

**Permissions**

Your user account or group membership must have the following permissions to validate a Screen unless your user account has the **Make this user a Super Admin** setting selected:

- Screens: Edit Screens
- Screens: View Screens

See the [Screens](/v1/docs/permission-descriptions-for-users-and-groups#screens) permissions or ask your Administrator for assistance.

Follow these steps to validate a Screen:

1. [Create a new Screen](/v1/docs/create-a-new-screen) or click the **Edit** icon ![](https://cdn.document360.io/2d311614-fcb7-4424-8b4c-d4d3091eebeb/Images/Documentation/2486dc39-ffb0-4e48-8f77-68ed29a364b7.png) to edit an existing Screen.
2. The **Screen Validation** toggle key is displayed on the bottom right of the screen and is enabled by default.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/2d311614-fcb7-4424-8b4c-d4d3091eebeb/Images/Documentation/a2fbb8ce-eccd-40ce-8f1b-12d37168ab19.png)
3. As you work on your Screen, any validation issues are displayed in the console. The following indicators may occur:
  - **No errors found:** If no errors are found, a green check mark indicates that your Screen is valid.
  - **Errors are found:** If errors are found, the error icon displays with the number of current errors.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/2d311614-fcb7-4424-8b4c-d4d3091eebeb/Images/Documentation/856f6714-2922-40fd-bd41-3dfb38c7d4fa.png)

Furthermore, controls that are associated with errors are highlighted in red.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/2d311614-fcb7-4424-8b4c-d4d3091eebeb/Images/Documentation/4bcb96b5-62d3-4d90-ae6d-aa68b3e6e7cd.png)
4. If errors are found, click **Open Console** to view the errors.
5. Make changes to your Screen to fix the errors, and then repeat steps 3 and 4 until Screens Builder finds no validation errors.

## Publish Your Screen

After validating the Screen, distinct versions of a Screen can be published. A version is a set of changes published for a Screen since the last publication. Versioning maintains a record of all named and unnamed publications to that Screen.

**Permissions**

Your user account or group membership must have the following permissions to publish a Screen unless your user account has the **Make this user a Super Admin** setting selected:

- Screens: Edit Screens
- Screens: View Screens

See the [Screens](/v1/docs/permission-descriptions-for-users-and-groups#screens) permissions or ask your Administrator for assistance.

> [!NOTE]
> Guidelines for Screen Publishing
> 
> - Changes made to a screen are reflected in both in-progress and new cases.
> - The changes apply immediately, even if a task is currently active in a user's inbox. Re-opening or refreshing the task will display the updated screen.
> - There is no need to publish the entire process; only the updated screen needs to be published.

Follow these guidelines to publish a new version of your Screen:‌

1. Click the **Publish** button from Screen Builder's top menu.‌
2. In the **Publish a New Version** screen, optionally enter a **Name** and **Description**. It is recommended to provide a name and description so the versions are easily identifiable when viewing the [Screen's version history](/v1/docs/manage-screens#configure-version-history).

![Publish New Version](https://cdn.document360.io/2d311614-fcb7-4424-8b4c-d4d3091eebeb/Images/Documentation/Publish%20New%20Version.png)
3. Click **Publish** to publish the Screen. Otherwise, click **Cancel** to return to the Screen Builder without publishing.