Release date:  October 18, 2018

Introduction

Blackout 2.8 introduces several exciting features to enhance the functionality of automated image and Excel jobs, as well as introduces the ability to redact an entire chart with just one click.

Features

Quickly Stop Automated Image & Excel Jobs

• Blackout admins can now stop automated image and Excel jobs from processing after the current document is done processing

Blackout System Log

• Relativity admins can now identify which document caused an automated image or Excel job to fail in the Blackout System Log

Character Matching

• Automated image jobs with word/phrase rules now take into account similar characters when applying redactions (e.g. E & 3 and S & 5 are treated as the same)

Redact an Entire Chart

• Blackout reviewers can now redact an entire chart from the Charts pane of the Blackout Native Redaction Assistant

• Reviewers can still redact a chart’s labels and title by clicking on the name of the chart

Exclude Rows/Columns

• Blackout admins can now exclude specific rows and columns from being redacted in an automated Excel job

Bug Fixes

• N/A

Miscellaneous

• "Fuzzy Matching" has been removed as an option from word/phrase rules for automated image jobs