025747 Automatic Anonymisation of Company Records

Khaos Control have created a new KSDMU task to anonymise companies automatically.

 

A new KSDMU task will be made for anonymising companies automatically in the system.

This will follow the same procedure as the bulk anonymization as found in [Companies | List] screen in the Right click context menu.

This will only anonymise companies in line with the settings as defined in [System Operations | Edit System Values | Companies | Anonymisation].

Command line parameter will be added for defining the number of companies per run that it will anonymise.

 

CAVEAT:

- As per the other anonymisation functionality; once a company is anonymised it can NOT be undone.

- If the company limit KSDMU parameter is not set then this will attempt to Anonymise all companies that meet the settings defined in [System Operations | Edit System Values | Companies | Anonymisation]. Depending on the number of records this may have a negative impact on performance.

 

An updated application and changelog will be provided with this functionality.

 

3.1 KSDMU ‘CompanyAnonymiser’ task.

Figure 1 : KSDMU Task.

An example batch file would be :

<path>\KSDMU.exe Action=CompanyAnonymiser  Verbose=ALL Limit=1000  --SaveOutput=-1 --OverwriteOutput=-1 --NOGUI OutputFile="<path>\KSDMU.log"

In this example the first 1000 companies would be considered for anonymisation.

 

After applying the above Configuration, typical steps for usage would include:

 

 

1.      Before the first KSDMU run, the .ini option named ‘Accounts.LastAutoAnonId’ will be blank.

2.      After the first run for say 1000 companies, the system will consider the first 1000 company records and anonymise all those which meet the anonymisation rules. (The rules are those from previous versions).

3.      The .ini option will then be set to the higher company id considered.

4.      Any later runs will then start considering companies above the .ini value.

5.      If companies need to be reconsidered, this can be done by changing the .ini value back to blank or to a particular company id number.



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