From 315b6be259da9e38940e4cd9e4d0bef0a8e81420 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mirna Wong <89008547+mirnawong1@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:19:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update metricflow-commands.md

clarify `validate` flags for dbt core and dbt cloud users. raised in [slack thread](https://dbt-labs.slack.com/archives/C03KHQRQUBX/p1727460117978559)
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 .../docs/docs/build/metricflow-commands.md    | 28 +++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/website/docs/docs/build/metricflow-commands.md b/website/docs/docs/build/metricflow-commands.md
index 55472ba53ce..dc98e70a22c 100644
--- a/website/docs/docs/build/metricflow-commands.md
+++ b/website/docs/docs/build/metricflow-commands.md
@@ -213,23 +213,23 @@ The list of available saved queries:
 The following command performs validations against the defined semantic model configurations.
 
 ```bash
-dbt sl validate # dbt Cloud users
-mf validate-configs # In dbt Core
+dbt sl validate # For dbt Cloud users
+mf validate-configs # For dbt Core users
 
 Options:
-  --dw-timeout INTEGER            Optional timeout for data warehouse
+  --timeout                       # dbt Cloud only
+                                  Optional timeout for data warehouse validation in dbt Cloud.
+  --dw-timeout INTEGER            # dbt Core only
+                                  Optional timeout for data warehouse
                                   validation steps. Default None.
-  --skip-dw                       If specified, skips the data warehouse
-                                  validations
-  --show-all                      If specified, prints warnings and future-
-                                  errors
-  --verbose-issues                If specified, prints any extra details
-                                  issues might have
-  --semantic-validation-workers INTEGER
-                                  Optional. Uses the number of workers
-                                  specified to run the semantic validations.
-                                  Should only be used for exceptionally large
-                                  configs
+  --skip-dw                       # dbt Core only
+                                  Skips the data warehouse validations.
+  --show-all                      # dbt Core only
+                                  Prints warnings and future errors.
+  --verbose-issues                # dbt Core only
+                                  Prints extra details about issues.
+  --semantic-validation-workers INTEGER  # dbt Core only
+                                  Uses specified number of workers for large configs.
   --help                          Show this message and exit.
 ```