Working with custom entity types
From the entity types list, you can set whether each custom entity type is active. For regex-based custom entity types, you can edit the custom entity configuration.
Enabling and disabling custom entity types
In the entity types list, custom entity types include a toggle to indicate whether the custom entity type is active for that dataset.
Regex-based custom entity types
For regex-based custom entity types, active entity types are either in found types or not found types list, based on whether Textual detected values of that type in the dataset data.
To disable a regex-based custom entity type, set the toggle to the off position.
When a regex-based custom entity type is not enabled, it is listed under Inactive regex-based custom entity types. To enable the custom entity type, set the toggle to the on position.
Model-based custom entity types
Model-based entity types are always listed under Model-based custom entity types.
To disable an active model-based custom entity type, set the toggle to the off position.
To enable an inactive model-based custom entity type, set the toggle to the on position.
Updating the configuration of a regex-based custom entity type
From the dataset details, you can edit the configuration of a regex-based custom entity type. To edit a regex-based custom entity type, click the settings icon for that type.
Note that any changes to the custom entity type settings affect all of the datasets that use the custom entity type.
For information on how to configure a custom entity type, go to Configuration settings for regex-based custom entity types.
Displaying the Custom Entity Types page
From the entity types list, to display the Custom Entity Types page, click Custom Entity Types.
The page opens in a new tab.
Running a new scan to reflect custom entity type changes
When you enable, disable, or edit custom entity types, the changes do not take effect until you run a new scan.
To run a new scan, click Scan.
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