View Data Detect Scan Results
You can view your results for any detected sensitive data with Data Detect.
Required Editions
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developereditions with the Salesforce Shield or Data Detect Licenses. |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To create, edit, and view Data Detect policies | Manage user access to Data Detect feature |
Note Users can only view and scan objects that they have access to. For selected objects, Data
Detect scans these fields: text, Long Text, Long Text Area, and rich text (only plain text is
scanned for sensitive information) in Standard and Custom objects.
- After the scan is complete, you can navigate to the Job Sessions tab, or locate the email that you received with the link and select See my scan results in the email to see the specific Data Detect Job Session tab. If there’s no sensitive data detected or there is an technical error, you’re shown a relevant message.
- After you've started a scan, you can view the status of a policy scan by selecting the job session under Job Session Name from the Data Detect Job Sessions. You can view up to 200 results per field in the dashboard directly.
- From here, you can select a tab to view Aggregate Results or Scan Results. Use the Aggregate Results to help make it easier to identify trends, patterns, and areas of high risk from the summary of data. Use Scan Results to drill down to specific pieces of sensitive data
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The Scan Results page offers a comprehensive report of the scan scope (objects, fields, and
records scanned) and a detailed breakdown of detected sensitive data types. You can drill down
into specific instances and update field classification based on the findings.
- Select Download Scan Results to download your results into a .CSV file. The first ten million results are contained within the .CSV file.
- If your total result count exceeds this limit, use Copy SOQL Query to download all scan results so that you can act on them outside of Data Detect.
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