Dictionaries

Spirion can search for words within Dictionaries. You can enable or disable searching for Dictionaries by clicking the Data Types ribbon, then the Dictionary button.  If you have not configured what to search for yet, the Custom Types List will be displayed and allow you to enter the full path to one or more dictionary files.  After you enter the path to a dictionary and click OK, searching for Dictionaries will be enabled.  When the ribbon button is highlighted, Spirion will search for Dictionaries.  To edit what to search for, click the option button. You may search for other Data Types simultaneously.

Dictionaries are plain text files that use the following format:

[HEADER]
Name=
blank

[WORDS]
any words you want

Here is an example:

[HEADER]
Name=DescriptiveName

[WORDS]
james
john
robert
michael
mary
william
david			
				

A Dictionary can also include phrases and can be configured using the following policy settings in a policy applied to the endpoint:

• Settings\Identities\CustomDictionary\PhraseIgnoreCharacters: Characters to ignore in source text when searching for phrases.
• Settings\Identities\CustomDictionary\PhraseWordDelimiterCharacters: The characters that separate words in a phrase or dictionary or in source text.

Note: Dictionary words may only contain English alphabetic characters [A-Za-z], numbers [0-9], periods [.], and spaces between words []. A period anywhere except at the end of the word. Users of the Console can customize the valid character set.

Note: A dictionary word list should not contain both leading and trailing spaces.

Note: Dictionary words are case insensitive. For example, if you have abc in your dictionary, it will match all of these:

        ABC
        abc
        aBc

(and other combinations as well).

Note: The Name is read from the Header section of the dictionary itself and must be present in the dictionary file.

Note: The file encoding needs to be in UTF-8 or ASCII.

Additional Information

To view or modify Custom Type settings, click the Configuration ribbon, then the Settings button, then the Custom Type page.  Alternatively you may click the Data Types ribbon, then click the Custom Type option button. For related information on Custom Types please refer to Searching with Custom Types.