Familiarize yourself with common Data Detect terms.
Required Editions
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
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Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions. Requires the Salesforce Shield add-on subscription or the Data Detect add-on license. |
Note The Data Detect legacy-managed package is unavailable for Summer '26. If you enabled
Data Detect legacy-managed package before Summer '26, it remains available in your
Salesforce org. We recommend that you use the new Salesforce Data Detect app instead. The
new Data Detect app is now part of the Shield app. See Data Detect End of Support.
- Scan
- Data Detect’s search process.
- Data Detect Policy
- A set of criterion governing Data Detect scans. Your policy contains all of the data patterns that you want the app to search for on each object.
- Pattern
- The data format that a scan looks for. For example, the social security number pattern looks for 9-digit numbers divided by hyphens into sections of 3, 2, and 4 integers.
- Match
- Values detected across one or more fields that meet pattern criteria.