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Data Detect Legacy-Managed Package Glossary

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Data Detect Legacy-Managed Package Glossary

Familiarize yourself with common Data Detect terms.

Required Editions

Available in: Lightning Experience

Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions.

Requires the Salesforce Shield add-on subscription or the Data Detect add-on license.
Note
Note The Data Detect legacy-managed package is unavailable for Summer '26. If you enabled Data Detect legacy-managed package before Summer '26, it remains available in your Salesforce org. We recommend that you use the new Salesforce Data Detect app instead. The new Data Detect app is now part of the Shield app. See Data Detect End of Support.
Scan
Data Detect’s search process.
Data Detect Policy
A set of criterion governing Data Detect scans. Your policy contains all of the data patterns that you want the app to search for on each object.
Pattern
The data format that a scan looks for. For example, the social security number pattern looks for 9-digit numbers divided by hyphens into sections of 3, 2, and 4 integers.
Match
Values detected across one or more fields that meet pattern criteria.
 
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