public sealed class DiscoveryStartingLocation : IMessage<DiscoveryStartingLocation>, IEquatable<DiscoveryStartingLocation>, IDeepCloneable<DiscoveryStartingLocation>, IBufferMessage, IMessage
Reference documentation and code samples for the Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention v2 API class DiscoveryStartingLocation.
The location to begin a discovery scan. Denotes an organization ID or folder
ID within an organization.
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Class DiscoveryStartingLocation (4.19.0)\n\nVersion latestkeyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [4.19.0 (latest)](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/latest/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.18.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.18.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.17.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.17.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.16.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.16.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.15.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.15.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.14.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.14.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.13.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.13.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.12.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.12.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.11.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.11.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.10.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.10.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.9.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.9.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.8.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.8.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.7.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.7.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.6.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.6.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.5.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.5.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.4.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.4.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.3.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.3.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.2.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.2.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.1.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.1.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [4.0.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/4.0.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [3.5.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/3.5.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [3.4.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/3.4.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [3.3.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/3.3.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [3.2.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/3.2.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [2.16.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/2.16.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n- [2.15.0](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/2.15.0/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation) \n\n public sealed class DiscoveryStartingLocation : IMessage\u003cDiscoveryStartingLocation\u003e, IEquatable\u003cDiscoveryStartingLocation\u003e, IDeepCloneable\u003cDiscoveryStartingLocation\u003e, IBufferMessage, IMessage\n\nReference documentation and code samples for the Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention v2 API class DiscoveryStartingLocation.\n\nThe location to begin a discovery scan. Denotes an organization ID or folder\nID within an organization. \n\nInheritance\n-----------\n\n[object](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.object) \\\u003e DiscoveryStartingLocation \n\nImplements\n----------\n\n[IMessage](https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Protobuf/latest/Google.Protobuf.IMessage-1.html)[DiscoveryStartingLocation](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/latest/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation), [IEquatable](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.iequatable-1)[DiscoveryStartingLocation](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/latest/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation), [IDeepCloneable](https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Protobuf/latest/Google.Protobuf.IDeepCloneable-1.html)[DiscoveryStartingLocation](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/latest/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2.DiscoveryStartingLocation), [IBufferMessage](https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Protobuf/latest/Google.Protobuf.IBufferMessage.html), [IMessage](https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Protobuf/latest/Google.Protobuf.IMessage.html) \n\nInherited Members\n-----------------\n\n[object.GetHashCode()](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.object.gethashcode) \n[object.GetType()](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.object.gettype) \n[object.ToString()](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.object.tostring)\n\nNamespace\n---------\n\n[Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2](/dotnet/docs/reference/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2/latest/Google.Cloud.Dlp.V2)\n\nAssembly\n--------\n\nGoogle.Cloud.Dlp.V2.dll\n\nConstructors\n------------\n\n### DiscoveryStartingLocation()\n\n public DiscoveryStartingLocation()\n\n### DiscoveryStartingLocation(DiscoveryStartingLocation)\n\n public DiscoveryStartingLocation(DiscoveryStartingLocation other)\n\nProperties\n----------\n\n### FolderId\n\n public long FolderId { get; set; }\n\nThe ID of the folder within an organization to be scanned.\n\n### HasFolderId\n\n public bool HasFolderId { get; }\n\nGets whether the \"folder_id\" field is set\n\n### HasOrganizationId\n\n public bool HasOrganizationId { get; }\n\nGets whether the \"organization_id\" field is set\n\n### LocationCase\n\n public DiscoveryStartingLocation.LocationOneofCase LocationCase { get; }\n\n### OrganizationId\n\n public long OrganizationId { get; set; }\n\nThe ID of an organization to scan."]]
