Policies introduction

Policies introduction

Introduction

The goal of Acquia Web Governance

Policies

is to allow website admins to set custom policies and rules for the scan to flag. The results from the scan are communicated with reports and alerts. Admins can then use the scan results to identify and repair issues that do not meet the policy requirements. This ensures that all content submitted by website content creators follows the same guidelines to help you keep your content up-to-date and correct.

Web Governance Policies includes a large collection of pre-made policies, as well as the option to create custom policies.

This collection of guides contains step-by-step instructions on how to set up pre-made and custom policies as well as detailed information about the available pre-made policies.

Visit the following clickable walkthroughs:

• Policies
• AI policy assistant

Note

• Policies rules use Ruby regex to match content on HTML pages.
• Policies do not have source code exclusions.

Setup

Only Admin users can create policies for the scan to flag. To add a new policy, contact your local Web Governance admin. The following documents provide specific Policies setup instructions:

• Create a custom policy
• Policies that use CSS selectors
• Pre-made policies

Policies dashboard

The scan flags policy violations and the system provides information about the match findings on the Policies dashboard. This section provides information about the Policies dashboard. Select Global Policies (mallet icon) from the main Web Governance toolbar.

The dashboard contains the following sections:

• Priorities and Policy Distribution: This section displays a bar chart to represent the number of policies with matches across priority levels against the Policy distribution that shows the distribution of policies that match their corresponding setting.
• Policy distribution: Displays the policy priorities low, medium, and high, as measured against the type of policy: unwanted, required, and matches.
• Policies with most matches: A list of policies that have the most matches.

Policies score

This section provides details about how the scores for the Policies feature are calculated.

1. Start with a base of 100.
2. Calculate the number of links or pages with errors, divided by the total number of links or pages, multiplied by 100.
3. For example:
   ​12 / 14 (gives 0.8571428571428571) * 100.

When the policy score is shown in a Policy Compliance percentage, it represents the average taken from the compliance percentage of each policy that is applied for the domain.

Policies reports

The scan flags policy matches and creates reports. The reports provide the information necessary to help your team identify and interpret policy match violations. This section provides information about the different Policies reports that are available.

The available reports for the Policies feature are:

• Policy Overview Report
• List of all Policies Report
• List Policies with Type: Matches Report
• List Policies with Type: Unwanted Report
• List Policies with Type: Required Report.

For more information, visit Policies reports.

Additional resources

To add Web Governance Policies to your plan, contact your sales representative.

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

Web Governance Policies includes a large collection of pre-made policies, as well as the option to create custom policies.

This collection of guides contains step-by-step instructions on how to set up pre-made and custom policies as well as detailed information about the available pre-made policies.

Visit the following clickable walkthroughs:

• Policies
• AI policy assistant

Setup

Only Admin users can create policies for the scan to flag. To add a new policy, contact your local Web Governance admin. The following documents provide specific Policies setup instructions:

• Create a custom policy
• Policies that use CSS selectors
• Pre-made policies

Policies dashboard

The scan flags policy violations and the system provides information about the match findings on the Policies dashboard. This section provides information about the Policies dashboard. Select Global Policies (mallet icon) from the main Web Governance toolbar.

The dashboard contains the following sections:

• Priorities and Policy Distribution: This section displays a bar chart to represent the number of policies with matches across priority levels against the Policy distribution that shows the distribution of policies that match their corresponding setting.
• Policy distribution: Displays the policy priorities low, medium, and high, as measured against the type of policy: unwanted, required, and matches.
• Policies with most matches: A list of policies that have the most matches.

Policies score

This section provides details about how the scores for the Policies feature are calculated.

1. Start with a base of 100.
2. Calculate the number of links or pages with errors, divided by the total number of links or pages, multiplied by 100.
3. For example:
   ​12 / 14 (gives 0.8571428571428571) * 100.

When the policy score is shown in a Policy Compliance percentage, it represents the average taken from the compliance percentage of each policy that is applied for the domain.

Policies reports

The scan flags policy matches and creates reports. The reports provide the information necessary to help your team identify and interpret policy match violations. This section provides information about the different Policies reports that are available.

The available reports for the Policies feature are:

• Policy Overview Report
• List of all Policies Report
• List Policies with Type: Matches Report
• List Policies with Type: Unwanted Report
• List Policies with Type: Required Report.

For more information, visit Policies reports.

Additional resources

To add Web Governance Policies to your plan, contact your sales representative.