Identifying and configuring replacement of entity types

Syncing files to detect entity values

Next, you run a scan on the files to identify values for Textual entity types. To start the scan, click Sync files.

Sync files option to start the file scan

You can cancel and then restart the scan.

Based on the scan, Textual generates a list of the detected entity types with the number of values detected across all of the files.

Detected entity types in the Textual item files

Previewing a file

To view the file content:

1. Click Browse.
2. Select the lakehouse where the source files are located.
3. In the source lakehouse, navigate to the file.

Content of an input file

Configuring entity type handling

On the Entity types from scanned files page, for each entity type, you configure how the detected values appear in the redacted files.

By default, the handling option is Off, which means that the values are not replaced, and remain as is in the output files.

The other options are:

• Redaction - Replaces each value with the name of the entity type, followed by a unique identifier for the value. For example, the name John is replaced with something like [NAME_GIVEN_ab15c7].
• Synthesis - Replaces each value with a different realistic value. For example, the name John is replaced with Michael.

Selecting the handling option for a specific entity type

To select the handling option for a specific entity type:

1. In the Configuration column, click the dropdown for the entity type.
2. From the dropdown list, select the handling option.

Assigning the same handling option to all of the entity types

To assign the same handling option to all of the entity types:

1. Click Bulk Edit Configuration.

Bulk Edit Configuration dropdown list to select the handling option for all of the entity types

1. Select the handling option to assign.