Managing Custom Redactions Options

In addition to the automatic and manual redaction options, you can further customize your organization's desired redaction preference with guidance text, styling options, updated classifiers for future detection, and redaction selections for areas and entire pages.

For more information on the available redaction management options, see Reviewing Files in the OneTrust DSAR Redaction Tool.

Custom Redaction Options

Redact Single Instance or Across Document

  1. Click and highlight on a data entity that you want to redact.

  2. Click Redact, then choose whether to redact the singular instance or across all instances in the document.





  3. Additionally, you can customize the look of your redaction with fill color, descriptive text, and text color.



  4. The new redaction will appear in the Custom category on the left.



Unredact Single Instance or Across Document

  1. Click and highlight on a redacted data entity in the document.

  2. Click Unredact This to remove the single redaction, or click Unredact All to remove redactions from all detected entities in the document.



Improve Learn Type Classification

This is an option to provide feedback to the OneTrust team to improve our redaction classification services and better detect entities.

  1. Click and highlight on a data entity in the document.

  2. Click Learn. The Learn Type modal appears.



  3. In this modal you can designate your preferred entity category and provide a note for additional context. You must make the Give consent box to share with OneTrust for redaction improvement purposes.



  4. Click the Submit button.

Redacting Rectangular Sections

You can use the DSAR Redaction Tool to draw rectangular boxes that will redact entire sections of your document. This allows you to cover multiple sentences, whole paragraphs, or non-text items like images or drawn signatures. Rect

  1. In the DSAR Redaction Tool, click the Rectangular section icon.



  2. Click and drag the box to cover the intended area.

  3. Click Redact Area.



  4. By default, the drawn box will be categorized as Custom on the left.



  5. You can change this to another desired classifier by clicking Type (ensure the redacted box is clicked) to search, locate, and update the classifier category.



  6. Additionally, you can customize the look of your redaction area with fill color, descriptive text, and text color.



  7. To resize your selection, click the Edit Box icon to drag and resize the area's sides and corners.



  8. To clone a rectangular area, click the Clone icon to carry this customized area to all pages, the following page, or a range of pages.





  9. To delete an area, ensure that is selected and click the Context Menu icon. Then select one of the following:



Redact Entire Pages

  1. In the DSAR Redaction Tool, navigate to a page in the file and then click the context menu between the preview and right pane.



  2. Select Redact Page #. The entire page will be redacted.



  3. To undo this action, click the context menu again and select Unredact Page #.



Remove Entire Pages

  1. In the DSAR Redaction Tool, navigate to a page in the file and then click the context menu between the preview and right pane.



  2. Select Remove Page #. The entire page will be covered with a watermark noting that the current page is removed. The page will not be included in the document download.



  3. To undo this action, click the context menu again and select Reveal Page #.