# Weekly cross-space sweep

A weekly background job enumerates every space, counts pages per quality tag and per stale-age bucket, and stores raw, config-independent numbers. An hourly trigger only resumes an in-flight run or restarts a weekly run that has not fired for more than 8 days. Phases are enumerate → spaces → totals → complete. Spaces whose content has not changed since the last completed run are skipped; spaces with zero pages are dropped from the rollup; progress is checkpointed every 250 spaces; rate limiting (429) pauses and resumes rather than failing.

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## Where to find it

Background (no UI beyond the Dashboard freshness line and Refresh button)

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## Where you do it

| **Task**                                           | **Where**                                                                                               |
| -------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Turn Quality on or off for one space               | Suite: Space Settings → Capable → General → Quality. Standalone: Capable Quality space page → Settings. |
| Configure which rules run and how serious they are | Capable Quality → Manage → Rules                                                                        |
| See the overall state of content quality           | Capable Quality → Dashboard (headed "Reports" on screen)                                                |

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## Settings that affect this

| **Setting**                    | **Where**                              | **What it does** |
| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------- | ---------------- |
| Inappropriate language         | Rules → Language                       | \-               |
| Non-inclusive language         | Rules → Language                       | \-               |
| Not updated in (Stale content) | Rules → Stale content → Not updated in | \-               |

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## Worth knowing

* Rules are configured once for the whole site. Opening Quality from a space scopes the counts to that space but edits the same global rule set, so a space administrator changing a rule level changes it for every space. There is no per-space rule configuration. The only per-space control is the Auto/Always/Never visibility switch.
* Four gates decide whether Quality is visible, in this order: the site-wide Capabilities Visible/Hidden switch; the space set to "Never"; the space set to "Always" (Suite byline only. Ignored standalone); and the Advanced edition (Suite only).
* On a space-scoped Quality page, "Issues over time" still shows site-wide numbers even though the header names the space.
* Cross-space figures are up to a week old, and Refresh queues a background sweep rather than repainting the charts. A brand-new install shows "Space data not yet collected" with empty trend and top-spaces charts until the first sweep completes.
* The weekly sweep skips spaces whose content has not changed since the last completed run, drops spaces with zero pages from the rollup, and silently skips a space that errors. None of which is surfaced to the user.
* Only the last 60 weekly and 36 monthly trend points are kept; older points are dropped.

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## Limits that apply here

* Top spaces by issues
* Cross-space data freshness
* Weekly sweep pacing and budget
* Space enumeration page size

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## Related

[Quality page byline itemAnother part of how this works.](https://help.gocapable.com/quality/quality-page-byline-item.html)

[One-click FixAnother part of how this works.](https://help.gocapable.com/quality/one-click-fix.html)

[How it worksThe rest.](https://help.gocapable.com/quality/how-it-works.html)

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_How it actually behaves._