Issue severity

An issue severity is made up of a level from 1 through 10, plus a label such as Warning. Severities are displayed for detected issues in Validate and on the desktop. Each checker has a default severity.

The available severity levels and their default labels are as follows:

  • 1 - Critical
  • 2 - Error
  • 3 - Warning
  • 4 - Review
  • 5 - Severity 5
  • 6 - Severity 6
  • 7 - Severity 7
  • 8 - Severity 8
  • 9 - Severity 9
  • 10 - Severity 10

By default, checkers are assigned severities 1 through 4. Custom checkers are assigned severity 4 by default.

You can edit:

  • the severity level for individual checkers
  • the labels for each severity level

See Changing issue severities.