The Quality Center in VS Code is your central hub to view, review, and manage all code changes and issues detected during a Live Check—without leaving your editor.
It automatically reflects any modifications made to your files, ensuring that the latest updates are always visible and evaluated in real time.
Benefits #
- Centralized view of all code changes and issues
- Run Live Checks on demand
- AI-powered fix suggestions with QC Copilot
- Easy issue review and Write-Off requests (individual or bulk)
- Continuous code quality monitoring within your workflow
What It’s Used For #
The Quality Center helps developers:
- Run Live Checks on unscanned files
- Review and analyze detected issues
- Request Write-Offs when needed
- Improve code quality continuously without switching tools
What the View Shows #
The Quality Center is divided into two main sections:
Displays modified files and provides insights into:
- Live Check coverage
- Blocking issues
- Estimated time to fix issues
You’ll find three tabs:
- Changes with blocking issues
- Changes with issues
- My Changes
Key metrics displayed at the top:
- Coverage → Percentage of files scanned with Live Check
- Blockers → Number of critical issues
- Time to Fix → Estimated resolution time
Example:
- Coverage: 1.82% (2/110 files scanned)
- Blockers: 1/7 issues
- Time to Fix: 0h 50m (blockers) / 3h 35m (total)
2. Best Practices
Shows all Salesforce best practices and highlights:
- Issues → Active issues since the selected date
- Spots → Total times issues have appeared historically
This helps identify recurring problem areas.
How to Use It
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Configuration Elements- Select the folder to analyze
- Choose a date
- Apply filters (element type, configuration type)
- Review tabs for different issue categories
- Check top metrics (Coverage, Blockers, Time to Fix)
- Run a Live Check to improve coverage
Use case
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Coverage
- 1.82% → The total coverage of Livecheck
- 2/110 → There are 110 modified files and only 2 files have a Livecheck executed (launched after the date of the last change).
Blockers
- 1 → The total blocker issues.
- 1/7 → There is 1 blocker issues of the total issues.
Time to fix
- 0h 50m → The total time to fix needed to solve the blocker issues.
- 0h 50 m/ 3h 35m → The total time to fix needed to solve the blocker issues and the total issues.
Best Practices #
The Best Practices screen shows all the best practices for Salesforce. Within the ‘Issues‘ column it displays which best practices has had active issues since the selected date on the Configuration Elements screen.
Furthermore, on the ‘Spots‘ column it shows how many times the issues had been detected since the beginning of time. This information helps users know which best practices had been constantly having issues.
How to use the Best Practices window
- Search for the Best Practice or use the filters provided (cascade functionality):
- Element type:
- Impact area:
- Severity:
- Status:
- Type:
- With issues.
- Check the Best Practices.
- Click on the Best Practices that have active issues to display information about their configuration elements and issues. Click on the documentation link to know more about the Best Practice.
Note that you can only see the display information for the Best Practices that have active issues.
Running a Livecheck #
From the Quality Center, you can easily run a Livecheck on one or multiple files to analyze the latest changes and detect new issues.
To run a Livecheck:
- Select one or more Configuration Elements using the checkboxes on the left
- Click on “Livecheck selected” at the top of the table
- The scan will start and analyze the selected files based on your defined rules and Quality Gates
Once completed, the results will be updated in the Quality Center, allowing you to review any newly identified issues and take action.
Requesting a Write-Off #
From the Quality Center, you can request a Write-Off for issues that are accepted or intentionally not fixed.
To request a Write-Off:
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Select one or more issues using the checkboxes on the left
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Click on “Request Write Off” next to an individual issue
or use “Bulk Write Off” to submit multiple requests at once -
Provide the required justification (if applicable) and submit the request
Once submitted, the Write-Off request will be reviewed according to your organization’s governance process.
