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Specifying Business Components and Business Component Fields for Audit

You administer the business component and the business component fields to be audited from the Administration - Audit Trail screen.

This task is a step in Process of Configuring and Using Audit Trail.

To configure the business component and business component fields to be audited

1. Navigate to the Administration - Audit Trail screen.
2. In the Audit Trail Buscomp list, create a new record, and complete the necessary fields.

   Some fields are described in the following table.

   Field	Description
   Assoc	Specifies whether to audit associations with the child business components in the Child Buscomp list. See Specifying Parent-Child Associations for Audit.
   End Date	Date on which the auditing stops. Turn Audit Trail off for an individual business component by setting the End Date to a date that has already passed.
   New	Select if you want to audit the New operation.
   Restriction Type	Specifies whether there is a rule determining who gets audited.
   Start Date	Date on which the auditing starts.
   Update	Select if you want to audit the Update operation.
   Export	Select if you want to audit the Export operation.

3. In the Field list, create a new record for the field you want to audit.

   Some of the fields are described in the following table.

   Field	Description
   Column Name	Displays the column name of the selected field.
   Field	Select the field name you want to audit. The details of the selected field are displayed in the Table Name, Column Name, and Join columns.
   Join	Displays the join name associated with the column.
   Read Field Value	Select if you want to store the field value during the audits of read operations.
   Table Name	Displays the table to which the column belongs.

4. Repeat Step 3 until the Field list shows all the fields in that business component that you want to audit.

NOTE:  In any deployment of Audit Trail, there might be a negative impact on performance, depending on the number of fields audited, and the number of audit records created by a business process. The impact might be greater for audits that include read operations, because this is the most common operation. If you audit a large number of fields on a business component, or audit fields in a large number of business components, there might be an unacceptable performance impact.

To disable individual business components

1. Navigate to the Administration - Audit Trail screen.
2. Use one of the following methods to disable Audit Trail:
   • In the Audit Trail Buscomp list, enter an end date prior to today's date in the End Date field.
   • In the Audit Trail Buscomp list, delete the record for the business component.