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The dictionary manager

The dictionary manager is a window of its own for curating your dictionaries. It opens separately so you can keep it beside the main window while you work.

Two ways in:

  • The dictionaries button next to the profile selector in the main window.
  • The dictionary control inside the profile editor (the button beside the dictionary dropdown).

At the top, a dropdown lists every dictionary with its entry count in parentheses — Default (1342), Cliente Mediterrània (87). Pick one to browse its entries. Next to it, four actions:

  • New (+) — create an empty dictionary.
  • Rename (pencil) — rename the selected one.
  • Duplicate (copy) — clone it, entries and all, into a new dictionary. Good for branching a client’s mappings without touching the original.
  • Delete (trash) — remove it. The built-in Default dictionary can’t be deleted, so its delete button stays disabled.

Below the toolbar, every entry as a row with four columns:

ColumnWhat it shows
OriginalThe real value
ReplacementWhat it’s swapped to
Source fileThe document this pair came from, or Manual if you typed it
DateWhen the entry was created

The Source file and Date columns are the audit trail: an entry added by an anonymization run records exactly which document introduced it, so months later you can see where “David Romero Gil” came from.

The search box matches across originals, replacements, and source files. Hunt for a real name, the fake it maps to, or every entry that came from one document.

Curating a dictionary means looking at a column full of real PII. The Hide original toggle blurs only the Original column, leaving replacements and source files readable. Flip it on when someone’s looking over your shoulder, when you’re screen-sharing, or when you just don’t need the real values visible to do the task at hand.

Copy all as CSV copies the current (filtered) view as original,replacement rows for pasting into a spreadsheet or sharing a mapping set.

The manager stays in step with the rest of the app. Add entries from a run, or edit them in another window, and the open manager refreshes — and dictionaries you change here are immediately available to profiles.