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            Data Mask & Seed Home Tab

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            Data Mask & Seed Home Tab

            The Data Mask & Seed Home page provides descriptions of the application’s features and the UI utilities for beginning your work with the new Data Mask & Seed application.

            Required Editions

            Available in: Lightning Experience
            Available in: Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer Editions with the Salesforce Data Mask add-on license.

            Home Page

            The Data Mask & Seed Home page provides you, the Salesforce admin, with descriptions of the application’s features and the UI utilities for beginning your work with the new Data Mask & Seed application. To access the Home tab, search for and select Data Mask & Seed in the App Launcher. The UI opens the Home tab displaying the Data Mask & Seed Home page.

            The new Data Mask & Seed Home page includes:

            • Purpose and features section: Learn about the app’s purpose and key features.
            • Associated PII section: Review associated PII (personally identifiable information) contained in object records (see Sandbox PII section below).
              Note
              Note This section is not available in the Data Mask & Seed Home page of a production org.
            • Coming Next section: Learn about upcoming new features and capabilities.

            Sandbox PII

            When you are logged in to a sandbox (in contrast to a production org), the Home page provides the Associated PII section. This section presents three tiles. Each tile displays the number of PII-containing records for each one of three different sandbox objects - Case Comments, Email Messages, and Chatter Comments. When the number of PII-containing records is greater than zero (> 0) for any of these objects, the relevant tile’s Delete button is turned on. Click Delete to run a masking job that removes these PII-containing records from their sandbox object. Running this specific masking job doesn’t require you to first create an applicable masking policy.

            User Permissions

            To access and work with the new Data Mask & Seed application, assign users the following Permission Set License and Permission Set. Make sure to assign the Permission Set License before assigning the Permission Set:

            • Data Mask And Seed User Permission Set License
            • Data Mask and Seed User Permission Set

            Related Topics

            From the Home page, you can access all other Data Mask & Seed tabs - Policies, Jobs, and Custom Libraries. You’ll work in each of these tabs when using Data Mask & Seed to accomplish the following application tasks:

             
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