Preview your classification rules

The classification rules preview lets you see how new or updated rules will affect your existing content before you apply them. It provides a summary of the data matches and the specific pages or issues that will be reclassified based on your new settings.

Previewing changes helps to:

• verify detection logic

• understand the impact of applying classification rules

• avoid accidental mass-reclassification

For example, if you create a rule to classify any page containing a custom detection for "Project Moonshot" as Highly Confidential, the preview might reveal that this rule affects 5,000 existing pages. Seeing this impact lets you refine the rule to ensure the classification is targeted and accurate.

What’s included in the preview

The classification rules preview contains an approximate summary of the changes that your rules will apply.

• The number and percentage of content objects with matching detections

• A breakdown of how many content objects will be automatically updated for each classification level (this may include assigning the same existing level).

• A breakdown of how many content objects will be added to or removed from each classification level as a result of these changes.

• A sortable table showing details of each classification level change type, including the total number of content objects affected. You can filter and search for specific classification levels.

What’s not included in the preview

The classification rules preview is designed to give you an overview only. You may see different results when you enable classification rules.

The preview doesn’t consider content objects that might already have a more sensitive classification level before the rule is applied. For example:

• a more sensitive default classification level

• a more sensitive space classification level

• a content object with a more sensitive, manually-set classification level

In these cases, the more sensitive classification level will always remain in place. This ensures your data receives the more protective classification level whenever a choice exists.