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

Required dataset permission: Edit dataset settings

In the entity types list, custom entity types include a toggle to indicate whether the custom entity type is active for that dataset.

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.

Custom entity type in the found entity types list

To disable a custom entity type, set the toggle to the off position.

When a custom entity type is not active, it is listed under Inactive custom entity types. To enable the custom entity type, set the toggle to the on position.

Inactive custom entity types list on the dataset details page

Updating the configuration of a regex-based custom entity type

Required global permission - either:

  • Create custom entity types

  • Edit any 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

Required global permission - either:

  • Create custom entity types

  • Edit any custom entity type

From the entity types list, to display the Custom Entity Types page, click Custom Entity Types.

Custom entity types button to navigate to the Custom Entity Types page from dataset details

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.

Scan prompt for a dataset

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