---
title: "Run a Data Quality Assessment"
slug: "bc-run-a-data-quality-assessment"
description: "Run a Data Quality Assessment in Business Central to check Customer, Vendor, or Contact records against active policies for validation and duplicates."
tags: ["BC", "Data Quality Assessment", "DQS", "Task"]
updated: 2026-08-14T10:43:48Z
published: 2026-08-14T10:43:48Z
canonical: "docs.staedean.com/bc-run-a-data-quality-assessment"
---

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# Run a Data Quality Assessment

Run an assessment to check existing **Customer**, **Vendor**, or **Contact** records against one policy or all active policies.

## Prerequisites

- **Data Quality Check** is enabled on the **Data Quality Setup**.
- One or more **Data Policies** exist and are **Active**.
- Validation rules, duplicate checks, or both are configured on those policies.
- Master data records exist for the entities you want to assess.

## Steps

1. Press **Alt+Q** to open the **Tell Me** search.
2. Enter **Data Quality Assessment** and select the page from the results.
3. In the **Run** field, select the scope:
  - **Specific Policy** – assess a single policy.
  - **All Active Policies** – assess every active policy.
4. If you selected **Specific Policy**, select the **Policy ID**. Business Central automatically fills in the **Table No.** and **Table Caption**. These fields are read-only.
5. If you selected **All Active Policies**, optionally restrict the run to one entity: **Customer**, **Vendor**, **Contact**, or **All**.
6. In the **Check Type** field, select the checks to run: **Validation**, **Duplicate check**, or **Both**.
7. Optionally, apply record filters to limit the records processed. For details, see Run an assessment for specific or recently changed records.
8. Select **Run Assessment**.

### Results

Business Central creates a new assessment run, processes the applicable records, and displays a confirmation message with the **Assessment Run ID**. Any failed validations and detected duplicates are stored as result lines that you can open from **Validation History**.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> To run the assessment automatically on a schedule instead of immediately, see Schedule a Data Quality Assessment with the job queue.

## Related

- [Set up Data Quality Studio](/bc-set-up-data-quality-setup.md)
- [Create a data quality policy](/bc-create-a-data-quality-policy.md)
- [Activate a policy version and test](/bc-activate-a-policy-version-and-test.md)
- [Configure validation rules](/bc-configure-validation-rules.md)
- [Configure duplicate checks](/bc-configure-duplicate-checks.md)