--- schema_version: "1" id: 4b09647a78e88ff05dd719c3cec177330ae842b4cc2c3b87e1d71118fd6ccb29 title: Data Mask & Seed Home Tab collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/platform/264-0-0/data_mask_and_seed_home_tab.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.data_mask_and_seed_home_tab.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: 4f74ab199baca17ab128582fb5eba861f71501a652a89cb2ce9e611e45f72659 description: The Data Mask & Seed Home page provides descriptions of the application’s features and the UI utilities for beginning your work with the Data Mask & Seed application. products: - Salesforce Platform release: "264" --- # 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 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 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 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](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-deploy_sandboxes-264-0-0-production-enus/654e51d1-6795-49fe-bd43-b5385950cf4a/images/icon_note.png) 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 records for each one of three different sandbox objects - Case Comments, Email Messages, and Chatter Comments. When the number of 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 records from their sandbox object. Running this specific masking job doesn’t require you to first create an applicable masking policy. Data Mask and Seed doesn't bypass automations when deleting records for each one of three different sandbox objects - Case Comments, Email Messages, and Chatter Comments. ## User Permissions To access and work with the 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: - Create and edit masking policies - see the [Policies Tab](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.data_mask_and_seed_policies_tab.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use the Policies tab to create, view, edit, and delete masking policies for your org.") - Create and edit custom libraries - see the [Custom Libraries Tab](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.data_mask_and_seed_custom_libraries_tab.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use the Custom Libraries tab to view, create, edit, activate, and delete custom libraries for masking policies.") - Run masking jobs on sandbox data, see [Run a Masking Job](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.data_mask_and_seed_run_masking_policy.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "After creating a policy in your sandbox that addresses your masking use case needs, you can then manually run a masking job using that policy to mask your sandbox’s object data.") - Check masking job status and review masking job results, see [Monitor Masking Jobs from the Jobs Tab](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.data_mask_and_seed_jobs_tab.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Access the Data Mask & Seed Jobs tab to monitor running and completed masking jobs, view job details, and cancel jobs in progress. The Jobs tab is only available in sandboxes.")