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title: "Create data quality policy"
slug: "create-data-quality-policy"
description: "Implement data quality policies effectively by organizing them by area, ensuring high data quality through defined execution settings and active versions."
tags: ["Task topic"]
updated: 2026-03-20T08:25:21Z
published: 2026-03-20T17:44:40Z
canonical: "docs.staedean.com/create-data-quality-policy"
---

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# Create data quality policy

Use data quality policies to ensure that your data is of the desired quality. You can organize data quality policies, for example, by functional area, business process owner, or organization assignment. If you create a data quality policy, its header and first version are created.

### Steps

1. Click **Data quality management**.
2. Click **New data quality** policy.
3. Enter the data quality policy identification.

In the **Policy ID** field, type a value.
4. Enter a descriptive name of the data quality policy.

In the **Policy name** field, type a value.
5. Enter a descriptive name of the data quality policy version.

In the **Version name** field, type a value.
6. Click the **Version details** tab.
7. You can enter any desired information on the data quality policy version, like a brief description, notes, or comments.

In the **Version comments** field, type a value.
8. Sub-task: Check execution settings.
  1. For each data quality policy, you can indicate when it is applied.

Click **Execution triggers**.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> In the **Data quality policy parameters**, you define the default execution settings that are applied to new data quality policies.
  2. You can apply a data quality policy:

Clear or select the **Enabled** check box as desired.
    - Only on entering or updating a record on a form. To do so, only select the **Enable by default** check box for the '**Form**' execution trigger.
    - Only on doing a quality assessment. To do so, only select the **Enable by default** check box for the '**Quality assessment**' execution trigger.
    - In both cases. To do so, select the **Enable by default** check box for both the '**Form**' execution trigger and the '**Quality assessment**' execution trigger.
  3. Close the page.
9. Close the page.

> [!NOTE]
> Notes
> 
> A new data quality policy version gets the **Draft** status. To apply a data quality policy version, make it active. Automatically, the currently active version is made inactive. You can also make the currently active version inactive. As a result, none of the data quality policy versions is active.

## Related

- [Set up data quality policies](/set-up-data-quality-policies.md)