Role-based redaction

You can use the role-based redaction feature to hide specific sensitive information in a document or image.

The redaction feature finds sensitive information in a document or image, and creates rectangular redaction annotations to cover the sensitive information. When the documents are subsequently viewed, the sensitive information is hidden from unauthorized users. You can edit the redactions in Datacap Navigator, and can export them to FileNet P8. The redactions are displayed as rectangles, which can be opaque or semi-transparent, and visible and editable in the Datacap Navigator client, but not in Desktop, FastDoc, or TMWeb. Redactions can be exported to FileNet P8, and subsequently viewed in IBM® Content Navigator.

Prerequisites for redaction feature

IBM Content Navigator (ICN) version 3.0, or later.
A FileNet P8 repository with role-based redaction reasons and policies defined using IBM Content Navigator.
Datacap Navigator is the only Datacap UI capable of displaying redactions, and creating or editing them.
Any user in Datacap Navigator has permission to create and edit redactions that are imported or defined for that Datacap application.
Redaction Reasons and Policies must be pre-defined in IBM Content Navigator, and imported into the Datacap application by using the Datacap Navigator administrator feature.
Input documents to Datacap redaction processing must be image files. Multi-page PDF or TIFF must be separated into single page TIFF or JPG image files.
Single-page TIFF or JPG images can be exported with redactions. Exporting multi-page TIFF or PDF is not currently supported for redactions.

Important: When the FNP8_Upload action is used, redactions are saved in a FileNet P8 repository. Redactions are not currently preserved by the FNP8_UploadDir action.