Anonymize action
Planon features the anonymization action in the Persons, External requestors, Addresses, Accounts and Visitors business objects. Anonymizing a business object will scramble its data and the action is irreversible. All the references to this business object will stay intact but pressing the i-icon for the referenced anonymized business object will show the scrambled values.
Anonymizing is an irreversible and destructive action, which is important to understand before clicking the Anonymize action. A warning will appear and the user must explicitly click Yes to confirm the action.
The Anonymize action is available for the following business objects:
• Visitors
• Addresses
• Persons
• External requestors
• Accounts
• Contracting parties
What does the action do?
When clicking the Anonymize action, the record will (seem to) disappear from the user interface. Related personal data on related orders will be scrambled.
In general, the following table shows the anonymized values per type of field after using the Anonymize action:
Type | Anonymized value |
|---|---|
Text | ***** |
Number | 0 |
Decimal | 0,0 |
Date | 1-1-1970 |
Date-time | 1-1-1970 00:00:00 |
 | • Anonymizing accounts is subject to logging. For more information, see the Administrator's Guide. • The Anonymize action is schedulable by using an action definition and a schedule in Alerts to automate the anonymization process. • On the above business objects, you can apply the Anonymize action via Action on selection. • Several links related to persons are also anonymized if anonymization is activated for a person. • The Translation field of the Addresses business object is also included in anonymization. |