Configuring an individual column
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For an individual column in Database View, you can configure the assigned generator and determine the column sensitivity.
From the column list, to display the generator configuration panel, in the Applied Generator column, click the generator name tag.
Required workspace permission: Configure column sensitivity
The Structural sensitivity scan provides an initial indication of whether a column is sensitive and, if it is sensitive:
The type of sensitive data that is in the column.
The confidence level of the sensitivity detection.
For more information, go to Identifying sensitive data.
In a child workspace, you cannot configure whether a column is sensitive. A child workspace always inherits the sensitivity designations from its parent workspace.
From the Status column, to confirm or change the column sensitivity, click the Status value.
The status panel indicates whether the column is sensitive. It identifies the sensitivity type, and indicates how the sensitivity was determined - by a sensitivity scan or by a user.
For a column that matches a built-in sensitivity type, the first time that you display the panel, the Sensitive data? setting displays Yes and No options for you to confirm or change the sensitivity.
To indicate that the column is sensitive, click Yes.
To indicate that the column is not sensitive, click No.
When you click Yes or No, the Yes and No options change to a simple toggle. When you click Yes, the sensitivity confidence level changes to full.
After that:
To indicate that the column is sensitive, toggle Sensitive data? to the on position.
To indicate that the column is not sensitive, toggle Sensitive data? to the off position.
When a column matches a sensitivity rule, the sensitivity panel indicates that the column matched a sensitivity rule.
You use the Sensitive data? toggle to indicate whether the column is actually sensitive.
When a column does not match a built-in sensitivity type or a custom sensitivity rule, the sensitivity panel indicates that column is not sensitive.
The Sensitive data? setting displays Yes and No options for you to confirm or change the sensitivity.
To indicate that the column is sensitive, click Yes.
To confirm that the column is not sensitive, click No.
When you click Yes or No, the Yes and No options change to a simple toggle.
If you click Yes:
The panel updates to indicate that a user confirmed that the column is sensitive.
The sensitivity confidence level is set to full confidence.
After that:
To indicate that the column is sensitive, toggle Sensitive data? to the on position.
To indicate that the column is not sensitive, toggle Sensitive data? to the off position.
You can also configure the sensitivity from the generator configuration panel. On the generator configuration panel, the sensitivity setting is at the top right.
To indicate that a column is sensitive, toggle the sensitivity setting to the on position.
To indicate that the column is not sensitive, toggle the sensitivity setting to the off position.
When you change the sensitivity from the generator configuration panel, the Sensitive data? setting on the sensitivity panel also changes from the Yes and No options to the toggle.
Required workspace permission: Configure column generators
When a sensitivity scan identifies a column, Structural recommends a generator for the column. For example, when the sensitivity scan identifies a column as a first name, Structural recommends the Name generator configured to generate a first name value.
In the Assigned Generator column on Database View, columns that do not have an assigned generator, and that have a recommended generator, display the available recommendation icon.
To review and either apply or ignore the recommended generator, click the generator dropdown.
The generator recommendation panel contains the following information:
The sensitivity confidence level
The recommended generator
Sample source and destination values based on the recommended generator
From the panel, you choose whether to assign or ignore the recommended generator for that type.
To assign the recommended generator, click Apply. Structural displays the generator configuration panel with the recommended generator selected. You can then adjust the configuration or select a different generator.
To ignore the recommendation, click Ignore. Structural displays the generator configuration panel to allow you to select the generator to assign to the column.
Required workspace permission: Configure column generators
To change the generator that is assigned to a selected column:
Click the generator name tag for the column.
To assign a different generator to the column, from the Generator Type dropdown list, select the generator.
Configure the generator options.
To reset an assigned generator to Passthrough, which indicates to not transform the data:
Click the generator name tag.
On the generator configuration panel, click the delete icon next to the generator dropdown.
For details about the configuration options for each generator, go to the Generator reference.
For more information about selecting and configuring generators and generator presets, go to Assigning and configuring generators.
