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Confidential banner in exported reports

Updated: March 10, 2026

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Overview

Provides guidelines for the confidential banner in exported reports. Lists the essential reference information detailing how the banner secures data and maintains privacy compliance.

Table 1. Feature History
Feature Name	Release Information	Feature Description
Confidential Banner	Cisco ONP Release 4.1	This feature indicates the confidentiality of the reports or results generated by Cisco ONP for a network. The CONFIDENTIAL banner is placed in all the exported reports. It is placed in the first row and first cell of the Excel sheet, followed by a blank row and the contents of the exported report.

Table 2. Feature History
Feature Name	Release Information	Feature Description
Customizable Confidential Banner	Cisco ONP Release 4.2	The Confidential Banner string can be customized as required. An admin user can modify the banner string when the confidentialBanner.enabled field is set to true in the feature.properties file.

The "CONFIDENTIAL" banner appears in all exported reports. In Excel files (.xlsx), it is located in the first cell of the first row, followed by a blank row, and then the report contents. If the .xlsx file contains multiple sheets, the banner is included on each sheet.

The "CONFIDENTIAL" banner is updated only when reports are exported in .xlsx format.

Server administrators can customize the "CONFIDENTIAL" banner text by modifying the confidentialBanner.content field. To enable banner customization, the confidentialBanner.enabled field must be set to true in the feature.properties file. By default, this field is set to false.

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