Enabling and disabling entity types and values

The entity types settings for a project determine the Textual entity types that Textual detects in new project files. You can enable or disable both built-in and custom entity types.

For example, you can tell Textual to ignore all Given Name values in new project files.

For built-in entity types, you can also configure specific values to add to or exclude from the detection. For example, you can keep the Given Name entity type active, but indicate to ignore the value "Mark".

By default, all of the entity types are active, and there are no added or excluded values.

Any changes to the project entity type settings only affect files that are added after the change. Files that were already scanned are not affected.

You can override the entity type settings in individual files. For more information, go to Overriding the project entity type configuration.

Displaying the project settings panel

The entity type configuration for the project is part of the project settings panel.

To display the project settings panel, either:

• On the Guided Redaction page, click the settings icon.

• On the project details panel, click More, then select Settings.

After you change the project settings, Textual automatically rescans the files to add or remove automatically detected redactions that are affected by the changes.

Determining the enabled entity types

By default, a project includes all of the built-in and custom entity types. When you add a file, Textual automatically scans the file to identify instances of those entity types.

From the settings panel, you can disable entity types. For example, if you disable the Occupation entity type, Textual does not scan for occupation values.

On the settings panel, to exclude an entity type from the initial file scan, set the entity type toggle to the off position.

Configuring added and excluded values for built-in entity types

For each built-in entity type, you can configure added and excluded values.

You might add values that Textual does not detect because, for example, they are specific to your organization or industry.

You might exclude values that Textual redacts incorrectly.

To display the panel to add and exclude values, click the add or exclude values icon.

On the panel:

• Use the Add to detection tab to add values.

• Use the Remove from detection tab to remove values.

Each value can be either a specific word or phrase to add or exclude, or a regular expression to identify the values to add or exclude. Regular expressions must be C# compatible.