Run quick data checks

Available with Data Reviewer license.

The frequency and type of data quality control you perform changes and evolves during a project's life cycle. Validation using the ArcGIS Data Reviewer Run Data Checks tool allows you to quickly establish a baseline assessment to decide whether the data meets quality requirements outlined in the project's quality assurance plan. This tool is available for file and mobile geodatabases.

Set features to validate

Depending on the type of validation you are performing, you may want to control which features are validated in the data. For example, to establish a baseline assessment, you can validate all features within the project's area of interest.

To configure the features you want to validate with the Run Data Checks tool, complete the following steps:

1. In the Catalog pane, open a map in ArcGIS Pro that contains features that require validation.
2. On the Edit tab, click Manage Quality to activate the Manage Quality tab.
3. On the Manage Quality tab, in the Automated Review group, click the Run Data Checks drop-down arrow to display the checks available for validation.
4. Choose a check that meets the data quality requirements of the data.

   The Run Data Checks pane appears.

5. Click the Input Feature drop-down arrow and select the feature layer you want to run the rule on.
6. Optionally, to run the rule on specific features in the layer, select the features on the map to enable the Use the selected records toggle button.

   

7. Provide values for the check's parameters.
8. Choose the extent of data validation:
   • Visible Extent—The current visible extent
   • Full Extent—The extent of all the features in the data

   Once all required parameters contain valid values, the rule is ready to use.

9. Click Run.

   The rule is run against the selected data. If errors are found, the errors are added to the project's default geodatabase and appear in the Contents pane as a layer or table.

Access the error results

When errors are found, they are stored in the project's default geodatabase and appear as a layer or table in the Contents pane.

Note:

Only file and mobile default geodatabases are supported for storing Run Data Checks results.

To access the error results from the Contents pane, right-click the error layer or table that was created and click Attribute Table. The Attribute Table pane appears with a list of errors found in the map, the name of the feature class, the feature object ID that is causing the error, the rule name, and the rule description.

Note:

By default, the name of the error layer or table is generated using the name of the input feature layer or table name, the check name, and the date and time the tool was run—for example, LayerName_CheckName_DateTime.

If the check is renamed, the name of the error layer or table is generated using the following format: UserProvidedName_DateTime.

Delete Run Data Check error results

Every time the Run Data Checks tool is run, error results are stored in the project's default geodatabase in the following tables:

• RunDataCheckLineErrors
• RunDataCheckMultipointErrors
• RunDataCheckObjectErrors
• RunDataCheckPolygonErrors

Learn more about changing the location of the default geodatabase

After running multiple run data check configurations, you can delete the error tables once the errors have been addressed. To delete the Run Data Checks tables, complete the following steps:

Caution:

Do not apply this workflow to the four GDB_Validation<tableName>Errors tables if you use validation attribute rules. This workflow is strictly for Run Data Checks results for the RunDataCheck<TableName>Errors tables.

1. In the Catalog pane, press the Ctrl key and select the RunDataCheckLineErrors, RunDataCheckMultipointErrors, RunDataCheckObjectErrors, and RunDataCheckPolygonErrors error tables.
2. Right-click any of the selected tables and click Delete .

   

   The tables are removed from the Catalog pane and deleted from the project's default geodatabase.