Is it possible to Achieve De-Identification using Section Access and Omit Fields?

Qlik_Administrator_Dude — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:32:25 GMT

Hello Qlik Community,
I was wondering if anyone had used the Omit Fields in Section Access to achieve de-identification of Data for HIPPA or other security frameworks.
Usually your test or development environment will use similar data as production, but the data cannot have the Personal Identifiable Information associated with it for these environments (unless you implement the same stringent security protocols on Dev or Test Environments, but that slows down development...).

I was wondering if I could simply create a Section Access Table using something like an 'Environment' field in my DataModel (Feel free to give a better field suggestion as well please). If the 'Environment' is 'Dev', I would like to Omit 'SSN, Full Name, Street Address, etc'.

Can anyone comment on the viability of using Section Access in this manner?

Re: Is it possible to Achieve De-Identification using Section Access and Omit Fields?

rubenmarin — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 08:35:06 GMT

Hi, maybe with ComputerName() and IF, something like:

IF Upper(ComputerName())='DEVSERVERNAME' THEN // Section access with omit ELSE // Section access witouh omit ENDIF

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Is it possible to Achieve De-Identification using Section Access and Omit Fields?

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