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Specifying Parent-Child Associations for Audit

In Siebel Business Applications, parent-child associations are set through:

• MVG (multi-value group) fields
• Parent-child applets

Siebel Audit Trail can keep track of changes in parent-child associations. For example, you can audit the association (and dissociation) of contacts with accounts.

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

To configure business components for auditing of parent-child associations

1. Determine the name of the child business component with the association that you want to audit.
2. Navigate to the Administration - Audit Trail screen.
3. In the Audit Trail Buscomp list, perform one of the following steps:
   • Select an existing record for the parent business component.
   • Create a new record for the parent business component, and complete the necessary fields. Some fields are described in table in Step 2.
4. Make sure that the Assoc field is checked.
5. Click the Child Buscomp view tab.
6. In the Child Buscomp list, create a new record for the child business component that has an association with the parent business component you want to audit.

   NOTE:  If the Deep Delete user property is configured for the child business component, create a new record for the child business component in the Audit Trail Buscomp list in the same way that you create a new record for a parent business component. In this case, do not create a new record for the child business component in the Child Buscomp list.

   Some of the fields are described in the following table.

   Field	Comments
   Link Name	Select the link between the parent and child business components that you want to audit.
   Child Buscomp	Displays the child business component for the link.
   Parent Field	Displays the parent field of the child business component.
   Inter Child Column	Displays the name of the child column.
   Table Name	Displays the name of the table on which the link is based.
   M/M	Displays whether the link is a many-to-many link.