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Overview

When reviewing your data governance results, you may encounter violations that your team has already discussed and decided to accept — for example, a campaign name that intentionally deviates from the standard pattern. The Acknowledge Violations feature lets you mark these as reviewed so they stop appearing in email digest reports.

Acknowledged violations remain visible in the dashboard (with a distinct status), but they are filtered out of all future MDG digest emails for that workspace. Unacknowledging a violation immediately restores it to active status and includes it in future digests.

How It Works

• Acknowledgement scope: An acknowledgement applies to a specific violation in a specific workspace. Two workspaces never share acknowledgements, even within the same agency.
• Shared across the workspace: Acknowledgements are not per user. When one team member acknowledges a violation, it is hidden from all team members' digest emails for that workspace.
• Email digests: Acknowledged violations are excluded from MDG digest emails. The email shows a note such as "✓ N issues acknowledged and hidden from this report" with a link to view them in the dashboard. If all violations for a rule are acknowledged, the rule just renders as passing ✅.
• No expiry: An acknowledgement persists until you explicitly remove it. There is no automatic reset.

Acknowledge a Violation

1. Open the Data Governance Dashboard and navigate to the General Violations table.
2. Find the violation you want to acknowledge.
3. Click the Acknowledge button next to the violation.
4. The violation is immediately marked as acknowledged and will no longer appear in future digest emails.

To acknowledge multiple violations at once, select them using the checkboxes and use the bulk Acknowledge action.

Unacknowledge a Violation

1. In the Data Governance Dashboard, filter by acknowledged violations or locate the acknowledged entry.
2. Click Unacknowledge next to the violation.
3. The violation is restored to active status and will be included in the next digest email.

View Who Acknowledged a Violation and When

Hover over the acknowledgement checkmark in the violations table to see a tooltip showing which team member acknowledged the violation and when (displayed in your local time with timezone).

View Acknowledged Violations from an Email

Each MDG digest email that contains hidden violations includes a link — "view in dashboard" — next to the acknowledgement note. Clicking the link opens the Data Governance Dashboard pre-filtered to the relevant rule and data source, with the page scrolled directly to the violations section.

The same pre-filtered link is also shown on the rule detail page, below the checks history:

|💡 You can acknowledge specific violations in the Data Governance Dashboard. Acknowledged violations will be hidden from email alerts.