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# Configure View to Redact Documents

You can optionally configure the View component to redact certain items in the HTML output that it produces. View uses Named Entity Recognition to location entities (snippets of information) and redacts them in the output file, rather than returning the original value.

For example, if you want to redact personally identifiable information (PII) such as names, you can configure View to find names in the document and hide them before it returns the HTML file.

IMPORTANT: To use document redaction, your license must allow you to use Named Entity Recognition and the particular grammar categories that you want to use (such as PII).

When you use a View cache, View saves the redacted version in the cache so that any further requests for the same document are also redacted.

To configure View to redact entities

1. Open the View component configuration file in a text editor.

2. In the `[Viewing]` section, set `DocumentRedactionSettings` to the name of a configuration section where you configure the Named Entity Recognition settings. For example:

       DocumentRedactionSettings=Redaction

3. Create a new configuration section with the name that you set.

4. Set the appropriate Named Entity Recognition configuration parameters to use the grammars and entities that find values that you want to redact, as well as any additional settings for Named Entity Recognition. For more information, refer to the Named Entity Recognition User and Programming Guide. For example:

       [Redaction]
       ResourceFiles=C:\PII\names.ecr,C:\PII\address.ecr

5. Save and close the configuration file.

6. Restart the View component for your changes to take effect.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Community Component 25.4

Topic Title: Configure View to Redact Documents