Searching with Blackout fields

Searching for documents using Blackout fields

Blackout field descriptions

Field	Description
Blackout - Has Native Redactions	A multi-object field associated with the Markup Set Relativity field. Can be used to determine if one or many markup sets have Excel or PDF redactions.
Blackout - Has Native Highlights	A multi-object field associated with the Markup Set Relativity field. Can be used to determine if one or many markup sets have Excel or PDF highlights.
Blackout - Has External Markups	A multi-object field associated with the Markup Set Relativity field. Can be used to determine if a document was externally redacted and associated with one or many markup sets.
Blackout - Has Manual Native Markups	A multi-object field associated with the Markup Set Relativity field. Can be used to determine if one or many markup sets have documents with manually placed markups.
Blackout - Native Prepared	A multi-object field that contains the set of markup sets that have a prepared native. Can be used to help disambiguate from the existing Blackout - Has Native Redactions field.
Has Blackout OCR	A true/false field to indicate if the images for a given document have been OCR’d by Blackout.

Note: Allow Pivot and Allow Group By is enabled for these fields

How to do it

1. Log into the Relativity environment as a system or case administrator with permission to create Relativity searches.
2. Navigate to the search page and click New Search.
3. Click Add Condition.
4. In the field list, select Blackout - Has Native Redactions.
5. Click the dropdown for Add Condition and select Blackout - Has Native Redactions.
6. Another menu will display with the list of markup sets in the workspace.
7. Check the markup sets that will be searched and move them to the right column.

8. Click the Apply button.
9. The condition will be added to the multi-object condition page.

10. Click the Apply button.
11. The full condition will be added to the search as a parameter.
12. Combine this with other Blackout and document fields to find the specific documents are looking for.
13. Click Save & Search after setting other required fields.

What else to consider

• The resulting set will be all of the documents, in this example, that have Blackout native markups associated with the Primary markup set.

• This process can easily be repeated with the other Blackout markup set fields.