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Scan an Asset for Compliance

Use Scan in File Viewer to check your content against compliance rules before submitting for approval.

Written by Austin Carroll

Check your content against compliance rules before submitting for approval.

Know exactly what needs to be fixed and save your approver's time.

Starting a Scan

  1. Double-click any file in your library to open it in the File Viewer.

  2. Click Scan in the right-hand toolbar.

  3. Review the scan settings:

Setting

What it does

Scan Context

Filled in automatically from the file's details: channel, products, audience, and geography. If the file belongs to a project with an audience already set, the audience fills in automatically. To change the context, update the file's details.

Preset

Under Customize Results, pick a saved scan preset. Your admin may lock the preset or limit which presets you can use.

Regulators

Federal, state and country regulations. State regulations are picked up from the file's geography.

Company Policies, Disclosures, Trademarks, Brand Guidelines

Which internal rules to check: your own policies, required disclosure copy, marks and their first use, and tone, voice and visual rules.

Brand Portal Libraries

Check against approved rates, offers, studies, and marks. You can leave individual libraries out of a scan.

Each check under What to check (inside Customize Results) is a switch and is on by default. At least one must be on to run a scan.

  1. Click Run Compliance Scan.

Understanding Scan Results

Each scan gives the file a compliance score out of 100. Under the score, click the Checked: line, which counts what was checked in each category, to expand the full list of every regulation, disclosure, and custom policy the scan checked, not just a count. This is a good way to confirm a regulation that should apply was actually included.

Findings are grouped by regulator or policy source, and each one is tagged with a risk level:

Flag

What it means

🔴 High

Fix this before publishing, could mean fines or regulatory action.

🟡 Medium

Should review, could attract scrutiny.

🔵 Low

Minor issue, nice to fix but not critical.

Click any flag to see the exact text that's problematic, where it appears in the asset, and which policy rule it violates.

Fix the issues, upload a new version, and scan again to confirm they're resolved.

To dismiss findings or give relevancy feedback on them, see Working with Scan Findings.

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