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Validation During Submission

Validation is also automatically executed when a project (the Phase 1proposal or Phase 2 program) is submitted to the ALMA Archive. Undernormal circumstances, validation errors will prevent an observingproject from being submitted and the project will not beexecuted. This will certainly apply for technical errors in theproject e.g. trying to observe outside existing frequencybands. However, this will also be the case if the user requeststechnically feasible observations that are not foreseen by theobservatory. To cover such cases, a system of waivers may beintroduced that could make a project pass validation, provided awaiver request to allow the exception to that error condition had beensubmitted and approved beforehand.

Since this validation is performed at the time that the projectreaches ALMA, the error report can take several seconds before beingreceived, or even minutes if a large project is submitted. This canbecome very inconvenient if large projects are sent to the ALMAArchive. For this reason, you are strongly encouraged to perform thevalidation of their projects before submitting them.


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The ALMA OT Team, 2011 May 20