Working with Redactions

What can you do

There might be a case when a documents content needs to be obscured or certain information, such as sensitive, confidential, or classified details, to protect privacy, security, or legal interests needs to be hidden. The redacted information is typically made unreadable to prevent unauthorized access.

Add Redactions

You may add redactions to a document and then modify or remove them as necessary.

1. Search for a document
2. Open the document
3. Click on Redact
4. Select Add New
5. Single left click, hold, and drag the cursor over the content to redact.
   1. This places a black rectangle over the area

      

6. Click on Save

See Through Redactions

A user with the See Through Redactions permission is able to view what is behind a redaction if it has not been burned on teh document.

1. Open a document with redactions.
2. Click on Redact
3. Click on See through Redactions

   

Burn Redactions

Burning redactions means to hide the information permanently on the document so no one will be able to view the hidden content.

1. Search for a document
2. Open the document
   1. If document already has redactions, you can go to Step 6
3. Click on Redact
4. Select Add New
5. Single left click, hold, and drag the cursor over the content to redact.
   1. This places a black rectangle over the area
6. Click on Redact
7. Select Burn Redaction
8. A confirmation pop-up appears.

   

9. Click Burn