Acknowledge Violations

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.

Acknowledging a violation marks it as reviewed and hides it from your reports: it stops appearing in digest emails and is excluded from your compliance-rate statistics. An acknowledgement can be permanent, or it can be timed — hide the alert for 1, 7, or 30 days, after which the violation automatically returns to active status if it still occurs.

How It Works

• Timed or permanent. Every acknowledgement has a duration: 1 day, 7 days, 30 days, or Permanently. When a timed acknowledgement expires, the violation is treated as active again everywhere — the violations table, the compliance charts, and the digest emails — with no action needed from you.
• Acknowledgement scope: an acknowledgement applies to a specific violation in a specific workspace. Workspaces never see or affect each other's acknowledgements.
• Shared across the workspace: acknowledgements are not per user. When one team member acknowledges a violation, it is hidden for the whole workspace.
• Re-acknowledging updates the record. Acknowledging an already-acknowledged violation — for example, extending a 7-day acknowledgement to permanent — replaces the previous duration and records the latest acknowledger.
• Email digests: acknowledged violations are excluded from digest emails. The email shows a note such as "✓ N issues acknowledged and hidden from this report" with a "view in dashboard" link. If all of a rule's violations are acknowledged, the rule simply renders as passing.
• Compliance rates: acknowledged violations are excluded from the compliance-rate statistics on the General, Performance, and Budget Pacing tabs. After acknowledging from the violations table, a notice appears offering to refresh the charts so they reflect the change. Historical trend charts are not retroactively altered.

Acknowledge a Violation

1. 1Open the Data Governance Dashboard and go to the violations table.
2. 2Find the violation and click Acknowledge on its row.
3. 3A card opens: "Hide this alert for the checked entity for a set time or permanently." Pick a duration: 1 day, 7 days, 30 days, or Permanently.
4. 4The row immediately shows "Acknowledged until …" (or "Acknowledged" for permanent) with an Undo link, and the violation is excluded from future digest emails.

Acknowledge Multiple Violations at Once

1. 1Select violations using the row checkboxes (the header checkbox selects the whole page).
2. 2In the selection bar, click Acknowledge, then pick a duration — it applies to every selected violation.
3. 3A confirmation appears with an Undo option. Unacknowledge and Clear selection are available in the same bar.

Unacknowledge a Violation

1. 1Use the Acknowledged filter tab above the violations table to see acknowledged entries (the Active tab shows only unacknowledged ones, All shows both).
2. 2Click Undo next to the acknowledgement, or select rows and use the bulk Unacknowledge action.
3. 3The 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 status in the violations table to see which team member acknowledged the violation and when, displayed in your local time.

View Acknowledged Violations from an Email

Each digest email that contains hidden violations includes a "view in dashboard" link next to the acknowledgement note. Clicking it opens the Data Governance Dashboard pre-filtered to the relevant rule and data source, scrolled directly to the violations section. The same pre-filtered link is also shown on the rule detail page, below the checks history:

Notes

• Acknowledging hides, fixing corrects. An acknowledgement only suppresses the alert — the underlying data is unchanged. To correct the data itself, use the violation's fix actions — see Violation Fix Actions.
• Undoing a bulk unacknowledge restores the acknowledgements as permanent, recorded under the name of the person who clicked Undo — the original durations are not preserved.
• Adding a reason to an acknowledgement is planned for a future release.