PII Element Search Guide

Canopy enables you to search for documents containing relevant detected Personally Identifiable Information (PII) using designated system fields. This allows for targeted retrieval of documents based on the identified PII they contain. Our PII search functionality supports Search by Detected PII and Search by Detected PII Count.

All detected PII is stored in its original text form, exactly as it appears in the document. Searching these fields is supported by the field query string syntax.

To search for documents containing specific detected PII element, use the pii.<element_search_name> field.

For example, to find documents containing the name “John Doe”, enter pii.name:"John Doe" in the search bar.

To find documents based on the number of specific PII elements they contain, use the meta.pii_count.<element_search_name> field.

For example, to find documents that contain 2 or more names, enter meta.pii_count.name:>2 in the search bar.

The following table lists the detected PII elements and their corresponding system fields. You can use these fields to search for documents containing specific PII elements.

In Version 3.0, Canopy integrates Elasticsearch (ES) version 8.0 into the application. However, Elasticsearch does not exhibit backward compatibility.

As a result, the Search Name in Canopy Version 3.0 and beyond will differ from that in earlier versions.

The following table compares the PII Element Search Name in Version 3.0 and later with that in earlier versions, for those who may still be using the previous version of Canopy.