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Use this page to
customize inspection profiles,
configure inspection severities,
disable and enable inspections,
and
configure inspections for different scopes.
The page is divided into the following areas:
Profile management
| Item | Description |
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| Profile | From this drop-down list, select the name of the profile to configure. All modified inspections are highlighted. | | Manage | Click this drop-down list to reveal the submenu of check commands:
| Share to team members | Select this check command to make the selected profile available for your team, i.e to make it the project-level profile.
The settings of the profile are passed to XML file that is located in the <project>/.idea/inspectionProfiles directory. The profile then can be
shared between your team members or you can commit the profile to VCS.
If you create a profile for your own purposes, make sure that this check box is cleared.
| | Copy | Choose this command to create a copy,
based on the current profile.
| | Rename | Choose this command to change the name of the current profile in the Profile field. | | Delete | Choose this command to delete the current profile. The pre-defined profiles cannot be deleted, so this command is only available for the user-defined profiles. | | Export | Choose this command to export the selected profile as an xml file. | | Import | Choose this command to import a profile from an xml file. |
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Toolbar
| Item | Tooltip and Shortcut | Description |
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 | | Use this text box to search through the list of inspections. In the search field, start typing the desired inspection name,
or any characters contained in the inspection name or description. IntelliJ IDEA shows the list of matching occurrences.
As you type a search string, the matching inspections are highlighted. To finalize the search, press ⏎ or ⏎⏎ or ⏎⏎ or ⏎Enter, ⏎ or ⏎Enter, ^ M, ⏎, ⌃M, ⏎ or ⌃M.
The used search strings are memorized in the history list.
: Click this button to reveal the history list. : Click this button to clear the search history.
|  | Filter Inspections | Click this button to show the list of available filters:

Click the desired filters to reduce the list. The command Reset Filters becomes available, if some of the filters are checked.
| / | Expand All/Collapse All ⌘ , ⌘=, ⌘ or ⌘=⌘ , ⌘=, ⌘ or ⌘=⌘ , ⌘=, ⌘ or ⌘=^ NumPad Plus, ^ Equals, ⌃ , ⌃=, ⌃ or ⌃=^ NumPad Plus, ^ Equals, ⌃ , ⌃=, ⌃ or ⌃= ⌘- or ⌘-⌘- or ⌘-⌘- or ⌘-^ NumPad -, ^ Minus, ⌃- or ⌃-^ NumPad -, ^ Minus, ⌃- or ⌃- | Click these buttons to have all inspection nodes expanded/collapsed. |  | Reset to Empty | Click this button to have all the check boxes of the profile cleared and thus disable all the profile inspections. |  | Advanced Settings | Click this button the show the menu with the following check commands:
- Disable new inspections by default: select this check box, if you don't want the
new inspections that appear after IntelliJ IDEA update, to become available.
- Reset to Default settings: select this check box to discard all changes.
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Inspection severity and scopes
| Item | Description |
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| Description | This read-only field shows the description of the selected inspection. | | Inspection severity | From this drop-down list, select the desired severity to assign to the current inspection.
The possible options are:
- Typo
 - Server problem
 - Info
 - Weak warning
 - Warning
 - Error

| | Scopes | Click this drop-down list to reveal the list of available scopes:

Clicking a scope in the list results in showing the scopes toolbar:
 | ⌘N, ⌃⏎, ⌘N or ⌃⏎⌃N, ⌃⏎, ⌃N or ⌃⏎⌘N, ⌃⏎, ⌘N or ⌃⏎^ N, ⌥ Insert, ⌃N or ⌃N⌥ Insert | Click this button to specify the scope for the selected inspection. |  | ⌘⌦ or ⌘⌦⌘⌦ or ⌘⌦⌥ Delete, ⌥⌦ or ⌥⌦ | Click this button to delete the selected scope for the current inspection. |
Choosing the option Edit Scopes Order results in showing the Scopes Order dialog box, where one
can change the order of scopes using the up and down arrows ( )
or keyboard shortcuts (⌃↑ or ⌃↑⌃↑ or ⌃↑⌃⌥↑ or ⌃⌥↑⌥ Up, ⌥↑ or ⌥↑⌥ Up, ^ ⌥ A, ⌥↑, ⌃⌥A, ⌥↑ or ⌃⌥A/⌃↓ or ⌃↓⌃↓ or ⌃↓⌃⌥↓ or ⌃⌥↓⌥ Down, ⌥↓ or ⌥↓⌥ Down, ^ ⌥ E, ⌥↓, ⌃⌥E, ⌥↓ or ⌃⌥E).
It is possible to select several inspections and add/remove scopes for the entire selection.
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Options
This area is only available for some types of inspections, provided that an inspection of this type is enabled (the check box next to it is selected).
Use the controls in this area to re-configure the default inspection settings.
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