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Description
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When clicking the “Validate Project For Deployment” button in Designer, the validation window is not displaying properly.  It's all grey until clicking around, while the visible window reported the error of “Process definition name not specified” under “Unknown Category”. Once this error is clicked, the Designer is hung with the Designer Console error shown in the KB-Scratchpad section. Restarting the Designer will not be able to open any project after that.

Symptoms

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When this issue happens, the Designer will hang and even restarting it does not help.


Cause

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This issue is caused by a forward slash  (“/”) inside a process definition of the project, i.e.,  <processName>/</processName>, which is not allowed. Such definitions can only be found by opening the project using a text editor. If this process is clicked inside the Designer GUI, the same issue will be observed and the Designer would hang.

Resolution

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The first step is to recover the Designer. Make a backup and then delete (.TIBCO directory under C:\Document and Settings\<user>\). Then re-launch the Designer. The .TIBCO directory will be created when you bring up Designer. The next step is to recover the user’s project.

The user should search “<processName>/</processName>” in the whole folder of the project to identify the problematic process. To solve this issue, delete the whole process and then recreate it. Another way is to use a text editor to open the problematic process, such as Problematic.process, and replace "/" by a valid process definition. Example: <processName>/SampleProcess.process</processName> . After that, use the Designer GUI to open the project and then replace the SampleProcess by the target process.

When clicking the “Validate Project For Deployment” button in Designer, the validation window is not displaying properly. Error: “Process definition name not specified” under “Unknown Category”.