Validating Project Folder Structure

Folder validation compares your ACC project's actual folder structure against the expected structure defined in a Project Matrix. This helps you identify missing folders, unexpected directories, and structural drift over time.

Why Validate?

Over the course of a project, team members may create ad-hoc folders or skip required directories. Validation gives you a clear report of how the live project compares to the standard, so you can correct issues before they cause confusion or compliance problems.

Running a Validation

1. Navigate to your project and open the Folder Validation section.
2. Select the matrix to validate against.
3. Click Validate to start the comparison.

Foreman scans the project's folder tree in ACC and compares it node-by-node against the matrix definition. A progress indicator shows the scan status in real time.

Understanding the Results

Once validation completes, Foreman presents a report with the following categories:

• Matching — Folders that exist in both the project and the matrix. No action needed.
• Missing — Folders defined in the matrix that do not exist in the project. These may need to be created.
• Extra — Folders in the project that are not part of the matrix definition. These may be intentional additions or unplanned directories to review.

Each entry shows the full folder path so you can locate it quickly in ACC or in Foreman's file browser.

Scheduling Recurring Validation

Rather than running validation manually each time, you can schedule it to run automatically on a recurring basis.

1. From the validation page, click the Schedule button.
2. In the scheduling dialog, configure the frequency using a cron expression (e.g., daily, weekly).
3. Save the schedule.

Foreman's job scheduler will run the validation at the specified intervals and record the results. You can view past execution history and results from the Scheduled Jobs section.

See also

• Deploying Folders from a Matrix
• Creating a New Project