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title: "What-if"
description: "**Pre-requisites:** Have customer Admin permissions to access the Rulesets section in the Admin portal. ## What is What-if functionality? The **What-If functionality** allows users to analyze the potential impact on technical debt and the number of detected issues if a…"
url: "https://community-staging.qualityclouds.com/qcdocs/qc/general-functionalities/what-if/"
updated: "2025-03-21"
category: Get Started / General Funcionalities
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# What-if

**Pre-requisites:** Have customer Admin permissions to access the Rulesets section in the Admin portal.

## What is What-if functionality?

The **What-If functionality** allows users to analyze the potential impact on technical debt and the number of detected issues if a ruleset is enabled for warning severity issues.

A warning severity issue means that an issue is detected on an inactive configuration item, or in a commented block of code. In this case, the severity of the issue is reduced to a ‘Warning’ issue.

Please find below the list of some of the issues raised with severity level ‘Warning’:

Any issue of severity High, Medium or Low while detected in a commented out line of code or any issue of severity High, Medium or Low while detected on an inactive configuration item.

→**  How to Access the Rulesets Tab to Verify the Impact of a Warning Ruleset Verification:**

1. Log into the Quality Clouds Admin portal.
2. Select the '**Rulesets**' tab.
3. Choose your instance.
4. In the Status tab, select '**Ignore rules**'.
5. In the Severity tab, select '**Warning**'.
6. Select the type of rule you would like to review.
7. Click on 'Edit'.
8. Click on '**What-if I enable the rule**'.

![](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/verification-2-1024x431-1.png)

9. Check the projection on data to see what would happen when the rule is enabled.

![](https://qualityclouds.com/documentation/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/verification-with-data-1024x490.png)

**Impact:** To plan the quality of the project to deliver when including specific warning issues. Use the What-If functionality to analyze the impact of including warning issues on the overall project quality.

**Use cases:**