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Support for Maskable Fields

A maskable field is a field in which some of the data can be hidden from view from some users. The administrator can set up some custom fields as maskable fields for certain record types.

Users whose role includes the View Masked Data privilege, can view all of the data in a maskable field. However, users whose role does not include the View Masked Data privilege can see only the last four characters of the value in maskable fields. All of the other characters in the field are represented by the characters XXXX.

For example, if a maskable field contains the value 102030456789, then you see the following:

XXXX6789

If your user role includes the View Masked Data privilege, then the following applies to Web services requests:

• You can insert data into maskable fields and update maskable fields.
• The full (unmasked) field value is returned in query results.

If your user role does not include the View Masked Data privilege, then the following applies to Web services requests:

• You can insert data into maskable fields and update maskable fields.
• The masked field value is returned in query results.
• You cannot use maskable fields in the search specification or sort specification in queries. Such queries return an error message.

NOTE:  If a maskable field is set up as read-only for the record type, or for the page layout that is assigned to a user's role for the record type, then you cannot update the field.

For more information about maskable fields, see Oracle CRM On Demand Online Help.