# Check Views

Source: https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/check-details/check-views/

Qualytics shows checks on three screens, and each one is made for a different moment of the work. Lists help you find checks and act on many at once. The check page gives one check your full attention, from its configuration to how it has performed over time. The side panel shows a check without leaving the screen you are on, such as an anomaly or a Scan's results. This page explains how to reach each screen, what it shows, and what you can do there.

| Screen | Best for |
| --- | --- |
| [Check lists](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/check-details/check-views/#check-lists) | Finding checks, reviewing them by status, and acting on many at once. |
| [Check page](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/check-details/check-views/#check-page) | Investigating one check in depth: its configuration, its results over time, its Timeline, and its anomalies. |
| [Check side panel](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/check-details/check-views/#check-side-panel) | Looking at a check while you work on something else, such as an anomaly or a Scan. |

## Check Lists

### Getting to the Lists

- The **Checks** tab of a datastore, a table or file, or a field lists the checks defined there.
- **Explore** › **Checks** lists the checks of every datastore you can access. See [Explore Checks](https://userguide.qualytics.io/explore/checks/).
- The **Checks** tab of a [check template](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/templates/deep-dive/introduction/) lists the checks created from it.

### What the Lists Show

The tabs across the top of the list follow the [check status](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/how-it-works/#check-status):

| Tab | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| **All** | Active and Draft checks together. Archived checks are left out. |
| **Active** | Checks that every Scan of their table or file evaluates. |
| **Draft** | Checks that are saved but not evaluated yet, waiting for review and activation. |
| **Archived** | Checks retired from Scans and kept for reference or restoration. |

**Active** and **Draft** each split into the same subtabs:

| Subtab | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| **Important** | Checks whose [Importance](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/importance/) is **Medium** or higher. |
| **Owned** | Checks you own, so you can review the ones you answer for without filtering by hand. See [Check Ownership](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/ownership/). |
| **Favorite** | Checks you marked as favorites. Favorites are personal: marking a check does not change anyone else's list. See [Mark a Check as Favorite](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/how-tos/managing/check-favorite/). |
| **All** | Every check in the tab, whether or not it falls in another subtab. |

**Archived** splits by the reason the check was archived:

| Subtab | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| **Discarded** | Checks that no longer fit the business rules or data requirements. |
| **Invalid** | Checks that were wrong. A later Profile run does not create an AI Managed check again after one archived as Invalid. |
| **All** | Every archived check. |

Every check shows its status as a label, so it can be read without relying on color. In **List View**, a **Status** column right after the check column shows a colored dot and the status name. In **Card View**, the same **Status** row sits under the check's description. An AI Managed check also shows the **AI badge** .

Each check carries an info icon. Hovering it shows when the check was used and changed:

| Field | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| **Last Asserted At** | The last time a Scan evaluated the check. |
| **Scans** | How many Scan operations have evaluated the check. |
| **Updated At** | The last time the check's configuration changed. |
| **Last Editor** | The user who made the last change. |
| **Created At** | When the check was created. |
| **Created By** | The user who created the check. |

### What You Can Do in the Lists

- **Narrow the list** with the status tabs and their subtabs, the search field, the filters, and the sort. See [Filter and Sort Checks](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/how-tos/filter-and-sort/).
- **Act on one check** from the  menu on its row (every list except **Explore**): edit it, change its status, or archive it. On an archived check, the menu restores it as Active or Draft, or deletes it. See [Edit Checks](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/how-tos/managing/edit-checks/) and [Archive Checks](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/how-tos/status/archive-check/).
- **Act on many** by selecting their checkboxes (every list except **Explore**): the selection bar offers **Edit**  (filter, owner, anomaly assignee, tags, and metadata), **Activate**, **Draft**, **Archive**, and **Delete** on archived checks.
- **See a check's open anomalies** by clicking the active anomaly count on its card. The anomalies panel opens with that check's **Active** anomalies. See [Anomaly Views](https://userguide.qualytics.io/anomalies/deep-dive/anomaly-details/anomaly-views/#anomalies-panel).
- **Open a check** by clicking it. From a datastore, table or file, or field list, it opens the [check page](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/check-details/check-views/#check-page). From **Explore** or a check template, it opens the check form in a dialog over the list.

## Check Page

### Getting to the Check Page

- Click a check in the **Checks** tab of a datastore, a table or file, or a field.
- Click **View Check**  in the [side panel](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/check-details/check-views/#check-side-panel).
- Open a link to the check, such as one copied with **Copy Check Link**.

### What the Check Page Shows

The page is split into two tabs. **Overview** holds the sections below. **Anomalies** lists the anomalies this check has produced, where you can triage them without leaving the check. See [Check Anomalies](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/check-details/anomalies/).

| Section | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| **Summary** | The check's key attributes, as cards, listed below. |
| **Description** | The plain-language explanation of what the check validates. It supports Markdown formatting. |
| **Observability** | How the check performed over time, in the **Assertion Over Time** chart. |
| **Definition** | How the check is configured, in the same groups as the check form. |
| **Timeline** | Every change made to the check, its past versions, and the team's comments. See [Check Timeline](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/check-details/timeline/). |

The **Summary** shows these cards:

| Card | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| **Check** | The rule type, with the check's status (Active, Draft, Invalid, or Discarded) below it. |
| **Owner** | The user responsible for the check. Hover the card to see the owner's full name and when they were last active. An AI Managed check shows an **AI Managed** label, and an **AI Context** note with how many records Profile trained and validated the rule on. See [Check Ownership](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/ownership/). |
| **Last Asserted** | How long ago a Scan last evaluated the check. Hover the value for the exact date and time, and open the info icon for the number of Scans that have evaluated it. |
| **Importance** | How much the check's failures matter: **Low**, **Medium**, **High**, or **Critical**. Hover it to see what decided the level. See [Check Importance](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/importance/). |
| **Coverage** | The percentage of evaluated records that must satisfy the rule. |
| **Active Anomalies** | How many anomalies of this check are still open. The label reads **Active Anomaly** when the count is zero or one. |

Below the cards, the **Tags** panel lists the check's tags. When the check was created from a [check template](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/templates/deep-dive/introduction/), a **Template** badge in the panel's corner shows the template's number and whether it is locked or unlocked, and links to the template.

The **Observability** chart has two controls: **Report Date**, the last day the chart covers, and **Timeframe**, **Week**, **Month**, **Quarter**, or **Year**. Hovering a point opens its details:

- **Latest Assertion**: the result of the last Scan that evaluated the check in that period, with its asserted records and anomalous records.
- **Totals** for that period: the number of Scans, asserted records, and anomalous records.
- **View check version** opens the check's configuration as it was when that Scan ran, in the [side panel](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/check-details/check-views/#check-side-panel).
- **Latest Assertion Scan** opens the Scan operation behind the result.

When a Scan could not evaluate the check, the point shows that it failed to assert, instead of a result. For the measurements behind Volumetric, Freshness, and Metric checks, see [Observability](https://userguide.qualytics.io/observability/overview/).

The **Definition** shows these groups:

| Group | What it shows |
| --- | --- |
| **Target** | The table or file, the fields with their types, and the filter clause. With no filter clause, the check evaluates every record. |
| **Properties** | The settings specific to the rule type. |
| **Ownership** | The anomaly assignee. |
| **Metadata** | The additional key-value metadata, such as a source system, an SLA tier, or an owning team. With none, it reads *No custom metadata property defined*. |

The owner and the coverage appear on the Summary cards rather than in the Definition. An icon on the Summary jumps straight to the Definition.

### What You Can Do on the Check Page

The  menu at the top right changes with the check's status and your team permission:

| Action | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Edit** | Opens the check form. Not offered on an archived check. See [Edit Checks](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/how-tos/managing/edit-checks/). |
| **Dry Run** | Tests the check against a sample of its data. See [Dry Run a Check](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/how-tos/dry-run/). |
| **Open in Recipe** | On an Entity Resolution check, opens it in its Recipe. |
| **Template** | Creates a check template from the check. Not offered on a check that already comes from a template. See [Create a Template from a Check](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/templates/how-tos/create-from-a-check/). |
| **Draft** | Moves the check to Draft. See [Draft Checks](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/how-tos/status/draft-checks/). |
| **Activate** | Makes a Draft or archived check Active. See [Activate Draft Checks](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/how-tos/status/activate-draft-check/). |
| **Promote** | Copies the check to another table or datastore. See [Promote Quality Checks](https://userguide.qualytics.io/operations/promote/managing-promotions/promote-quality-checks/). |
| **Archive** | Retires the check from Scans. See [Archive Checks](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/how-tos/status/archive-check/). |
| **Delete** | Removes an archived check for good. See [Delete Checks](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/how-tos/managing/delete-checks/). |

On the page you can also:

- **Copy Check Link** , to share the check with a teammate.
- Add the check to your favorites with the **bookmark** , or remove it.
- Edit the tags in the **Tags** panel, and the description with **Edit description** . With an AI integration configured, **Suggest a description**  writes one from the check's definition. Both need permission to edit the check.
- Comment on the Timeline. See [Check Timeline](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/check-details/timeline/).
- Edit the computed table, or the computed field, that the check uses, in the same **Edit Computed** dialog as on the table's page. Press `E` while the computed asset has focus to open it.

> **Warning: Fields will be marked as missing**
>
> When an edit to a computed table or field would remove or rename a field that a check uses, a warning lists each affected field with its number of checks and anomalies. **Proceed Anyway** marks those fields as missing, keeps their checks and anomalies, and leaves the checks' status as it was. To keep a check working, go back with **Review Query** or **Review Expression** and keep the fields it depends on.

## Check Side Panel

### Getting to the Side Panel

- Click a check in the **Failed Checks** section of an anomaly. See [Anomaly Views](https://userguide.qualytics.io/anomalies/deep-dive/anomaly-details/anomaly-views/#anomaly-page).
- Click a check in the results of a Scan.
- Click a check on a tag's page.
- Click **View check version** on a point of the check's **Observability** chart, to see the check as it was when that Scan ran.

The panel opens on the right, and the screen behind it stays where you left it.

### What the Side Panel Shows

The side panel is a compact, read-only version of the check page:

- **The header**: the rule type, the **AI badge**  on an AI Managed check, **View Check** , and **Copy Check Link** . On a past version, the button reads **View current version**, and the header shows the date of that version.
- **The key attributes**: the datastore and table or file, the status, the Importance, when the check was last asserted, and how many anomalies are still open.
- **Description** and **Tags**.
- **The definition**, in the same groups as the check form, read only.

### What You Can Do in the Side Panel

- **Open the check page** with **View Check**  to edit the check or change its status.
- **Move through the checks** with **Previous**  and **Next** , when the panel was opened from a list of checks, such as the ones on a tag's page.
- **Close** the panel with  to return to the screen behind it.

## Archived Checks

An archived check opens on the same screens, but it cannot be edited: its  menu offers only **Activate**, **Draft**, and **Delete**. Restore it to make changes. See [Restore Archived Checks](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/how-tos/status/restore-archived-checks/).

## See Also

- **Check Anomalies**

  The anomalies a check has produced, and how to triage them from the check's page.

  [Check Anomalies](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/check-details/anomalies/)
- **Check Timeline**

  The change log of a check, its past versions, and the comments your team leaves on it.

  [Check Timeline](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/check-details/timeline/)
- **Check Examples**

  Scenarios that show ownership and AI Managed checks in practice.

  [Check Examples](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/examples/)
- **Check Permissions**

  Which team permissions can view, create, edit, archive, and delete checks, change owners, and edit AI Managed checks.

  [Check Permissions](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/permissions/)
- **How a Check Works**

  What a check is made of, who creates it, how AI Managed checks are generated, how a Scan evaluates it, and how its status changes.

  [How a Check Works](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/how-it-works/)
- **Authored Checks**

  What an Authored check is, who governs it, and how it differs from an AI Managed check.

  [Authored Checks](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/authored-checks/)
- **AI Managed Checks**

  What an AI Managed check is, which edits convert it to Authored, and how to go back.

  [AI Managed Checks](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/ai-managed-checks/)
- **Check Ownership**

  Who is responsible for a check, the four ways ownership changes, notifications, and filtering by owner.

  [Check Ownership](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/ownership/)
- **Check Importance**

  How much a check's failures matter, and how its tags raise or lower it.

  [Check Importance](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/importance/)
- **Impact Metrics**

  Numbers measured over a check's failed records that show how big a failure is.

  [Impact Metrics](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/impact-metrics/)
- **Dry Run**

  What a Dry Run evaluates and how to read its results, anomalies, and source records.

  [Dry Run](https://userguide.qualytics.io/data-quality-checks/checks/deep-dive/dry-run/)

*Last updated: November 10, 2026.*