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Filtering Test Results by Suppressing Errors/Warnings

AdminStudio 2025 | 29.0 | Application Manager

Application Manager is included with AdminStudio Professional and Enterprise Editions.

If you do not want Analyze to include the issues generated by a particular test in the overall package status, and you do not want them included in summary issue counts, you can choose to suppress that test by clicking the Suppress (ON/OFF) button on the following tabs of the Analyze Deployment Type View :

  • Operating System Compatibility

  • Best Practices

  • Risk Assessment

  • Application Conflicts

When you suppress a test, its Suppress button switches from its ON state:

to its OFF state, and its error or warning icon switches to gray:

You may choose to suppress the test results of a test that generates known issues at your organization which do not need additional corrections.

When a test is suppressed, the following occurs:

  • Errors/warnings not included in summary totals—The test’s issues are no longer included in the overall Errors and Warnings counts on Summary tab of the Analyze Deployment Type View . Instead, they are listed on the Issues Suppressed column.

  • Test’s status is ignored in overall status—The test's status is ignored when assigning an overall status to a package.

  • Test’s issues are not fixed—Issues generated by suppressed tests are not resolved during automatic issue resolution even if an auto-fix exists.

note

Even though the test is suppressed, it is still run each time testing is performed. The only way to turn off the execution of a test is to deselect it on the Select Tests to Execute dialog box.

To suppress a test’s issues, perform the following steps:

To suppress the errors and warnings for a test:

  1. Select the Analyze tab in the Application Manager ribbon.
  2. Select a package in the tree. The Summary tab of the Analyze Deployment Type View opens.
  3. Select the tab of the Analyze Deployment Type View that contains the issues that you want to suppress.
  4. Next to the name of the test that has generated issues that you want to suppress, click its Suppress button. The button will switch from its ON state:
    • to its OFF state, and its error or warning icon will switch to gray:
  5. Open the Summary tab of the Analyze Deployment Type View , and notice that the count in the Issues Suppressed column for that test category has been increased.