Review Tool Overview | Edit Assignments Review | Validation Anomalies Review

Review Tool Overview

The review tool allows Administrators and Editors to review rejected edit sessions and validation anomalies.

1. Select the Review Tool from the widget toolbar

2. Select a tab:

  1. Edit Assignments - Review edit sessions rejected by Administrators.

  2. Validation Anomalies - Review validation results and manage anomaly exceptions

3. Use the filter and review tools to review edit session or validation results.

  • Zoom: Click the magnifying glass icon to zoom to the selected feature.

  • Details: Click the table icon to minimize the Review tool and review the attributes and related tables of the selected feature on the map.

  • External NGUID: Shows the unique record identifier for the feature.

Edit Assignments Review

Use the Edit Assignments tab to review sessions that have been rejected by an Administrator:

1. Choose Editor Submission: Select the edit session from the dropdown.

2. Filter By:

  • Feature - Filter features by Feature Class.

  • Status - Filter features by approval status.

3. Edit Assignment table fields:

  • Type:

    • Add - New features

    • Update - Features that had attribute changes or were updated spatially

    • Delete: Deleted features

  • Edit Actions: Shows the type of edit applied to the feature.

  • Feature: Displays the Feature Class of the feature.

  • Comments: Use this field to add comments for the Editor to view if the feature is rejected.

  • Created By: Shows the name of the VEP user who submitted the edit session or upload.

  • Status: Click in the field to change the review status of the selected feature using the drop-down.


Note: After reviewing the rejected edit session, open the Edit tool to make the necessary corrections. The rejected edit session will be placed into the Choose Edit Session drop-down with (Rejected) appended.

Validation Anomalies Review

Use the Validation Anomalies tab to review and modify validation anomalies:

1. Configure the search parameters and click Search to generate a list of anomalies.

  • Type - Filter anomalies by Feature Class or Table.

  • Validation Date - Filter anomalies by a validation run date.

  • Exception - Filter anomalies by exception status.

2. Add an optional filter:

  • Validation - Filter anomalies by a specific validation.

3. Validations Anomalies Tables fields:

  • Class - Displays the Feature Class of the anomaly.

  • Validation - Shows the validation name.

  • Description - A specific description of the validation.

  • Date Created - Date that the anomaly was generated.

  • Exception - Check this box if the anomaly is not a true error and it will be ignored on future validation runs.

  • Status - Add a comment regarding the status of this anomaly. 

  • Justification - Add a justification for the Exception status.

  • Comments - Add comments to the anomaly.

4. Click Save Changes before navigating to a new page or closing the widget to retain edits.


Quick Tip: Anomalies are displayed by map extent. If you aren’t finding an anomaly that you are looking for, try changing the map extent to the area you want to review.