Data Privacy

Overview

The Data Privacy module allows users to record and take action on data privacy requests and events in Sugar. This module is one portion of a feature set aimed at supporting your ability to carry out your organization's data privacy policies. Sugar's Data Privacy Guide provides information that spans the entire data privacy feature set and presents consolidated information and instructions for leveraging these tools to accomplish your organization's data privacy procedures. This Data Privacy Guide will describe these enhancements, the configuration steps an admin must complete before users can access the new functionality, as well as provide guidance for end users and Data Privacy Managers. This documentation will instead focus on the mechanics of using the module including its fields, options, menus, and how to perform common actions on data privacy records.

Data Privacy Fields

The Data Privacy module contains a number of stock fields that come out-of-the-box with Sugar. For information on using and editing various field types, refer to the User Interface documentation. The definitions below are suggested meanings for the fields, but the fields can be leveraged differently to best meet your organization's needs. Administrators or users with developer-level role access have the ability to alter, add, or remove fields via Admin > Studio. For more information on configuring fields, please refer to the Studio documentation in the Administration Guide.

¹ This field's value is only visible to Sugar Serve and Sugar Sell users; when this field appears on layouts, users without a supported license type will see a placeholder containing the text "License Required" instead of the field's value. See the User Management page for more details on license types.

Data Privacy Types

The Data Privacy module includes a Type field that captures the nature of the privacy event or request. You may wish to add, edit, or remove Type field values in order to match the kinds of activities and requests you will need to process and record, according to your organization's needs. 

Three of the out-of-the-box Type values enable additional functionality in the Data Privacy module. You can edit their display labels, but the Item Name portions of the following options must remain unchanged in order to retain the full capabilities of the module:

* The item names cannot be changed.

For more information about modifying the available type values, refer to the Data Privacy Guide.

Managing Data Privacy in Sugar

The Data Privacy module is one portion of a feature set aimed at supporting your ability to carry out your organization's data privacy policies. Sugar's Data Privacy Guide provides information that spans the entire data privacy feature set and presents consolidated information and instructions for leveraging these tools to accomplish your organization's data privacy procedures. This guide will describe these enhancements, the configuration steps an admin must complete before users can access the new functionality, as well as provide guidance for end users and Data Privacy Managers.

Working With Sugar Modules

While the Data Privacy module has some features that only apply to data privacy records, it also uses the Sidecar user interface that most Sugar modules are based on. The following sections detail menus, views, and actions common to Sidecar modules and contain links to additional information within the page or links to the User Interface documentation.

Data Privacy Menus

The Data Privacy module contains various options and functionality which are available via menus in the module tab, list view, and record view. The following sections present each menu and its options with links to more information about each option in the User Interface documentation or, for Data Privacy-specific functionality, within this page.

Module Tab Menus

The Data Privacy module tab is typically located under the More tab on the navigation bar at the top of any Sugar screen. Sugar normally displays the top six modules shown in the Display Modules list of your user preferences with the remaining displayed modules grouped under the More tab. For more information on displayed modules for the navigation bar, please refer to the Layout Options section of the Getting Started documentation.

Note: By default, the Data Privacy module is hidden in Sugar and the system administrator must enable the module via Admin > Display Modules and Subpanels. For more information on displaying modules in Sugar, please refer to the Developer Tools documentation in the Administration Guide.

Click the tab to access the Data Privacy list view. You may also click the triangle in the Data Privacy module tab to display the Actions, Recently Viewed, and Favorites menus. The Actions menu allows you to perform important operations within the module. The Recently Viewed menu displays the list of data privacy activities you most recently viewed. The Favorites menu displays the list of data privacy activities you most recently marked as favorites. 

The module tab's Actions menu allows you to perform the following operations:

For more information on module tab menus including reasons a module may not be included in the menu, see the User Interface documentation.

List View Menus

The Data Privacy list view displays all data privacy records and allows for searching and filtering to locate specific data privacy activities. You can view the basic details of each record within the field columns of the list view or click a data privacy activity's name to open the record view. To access a module's list view, simply click the module's tab in the navigation bar at the top of any Sugar page.

List View Mass Actions Menu

The Mass Actions menu to the right of the checkbox option in the list header allows you to perform mass actions on all currently selected records. You can use the checkbox on each record's row to select individual data privacy activities or click the checkbox in the list header to select all records displayed on the current set of list view results.

The Mass Actions menu allows you to perform the following operations:

List View Record Actions Menu

The Record Actions menu to the far right of each record's row allows you to perform actions on the individual data privacy record directly from the list view.

The list view's Record Actions menu allows you to perform the following operations:

Record View Actions Menu

The Data Privacy record view displays a single data privacy in full detail including its fields and subpanels of related records. To access a data privacy's record view, simply click a hyperlinked data privacy name from anywhere within Sugar. The record view's Actions menu appears on the top right of the page and allows you to perform various operations on the current record.

The Actions menu allows you to perform the following operations: 

Common Views and Actions

In the table below, the left column contains links to the User Interface page covering topics that are applicable to all Sidecar modules. The right column has links to sections of the current page that cover topics specific to data privacy.