Validation
Run quality checks across your project data and work through the issues.
Manage checks your project data against a library of validation rules - catching depth, spatial, date, completeness and other problems before they reach a client. Validation is a Pro feature.
A Pro feature
The validation indicator and results are available on the Pro plan; on Go they are not shown.
Run validation
The validation indicator sits at the foot of the table panel in the table editor. Click Validate to run the checks against the project. The indicator shows the last run - All clear, or counts of issues to look at - and marks results as stale when the data changes after a run.
The results
Open the results to see issues grouped and filtered by category:
| Category | Checks |
|---|---|
| Depth | Depth values and ranges. |
| Spatial | Coordinates and positions. |
| Date | Dates and date ranges. |
| Completeness | Required or expected values that are missing. |
| Relationship | Links between records that do not line up. |
| Quality | General data-quality checks. |
| Soil | BS 5930 soil description checks. |
| Made ground | Anthropogenic material description checks, based on AGS 2018 guidance. |
Each issue carries a severity - error, warning or info - and a count of the records it affects. Expand a rule to see each affected record, with its location, depth and table, so you can jump straight to the fix.
Which rules run
The rules that run, and whether each is active, come from your configuration, managed in Product OS. Validation is also surfaced on the map as map advisors.
Made ground checks
The Made ground checks can be turned on or off per configuration in Product OS. Most apply only where the stratum is made ground - by legend code or description - though the two terminology checks (vague odours, and the term "cinders") apply to any description, since neither issue is confined to made ground. Like all validation, they are advisory - engineering judgment takes priority.
Derived from AGS Description of Anthropogenic Materials - A Practitioners' Guide (Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists, 2018), lead author Chris Swainston. The guidance remains AGS copyright. These checks are our interpretation of the guidance for software use; they are not exhaustive, are not a substitute for the guide or professional judgment, and are not AGS-endorsed unless the AGS confirms otherwise.
Last updated 22 June 2026