View Audit Reports

You can view the audit report for the business objects that are enabled for auditing. Remember, to view the history, or to generate a report, you must have a role with the View Audit History (FND_VIEW_AUDIT_HISTORY_PRIV) privilege assigned to it.

1. Click Navigator > Tools > Audit Reports.
2. On the Audit Reports page, specify the search criteria.

   Here's what some of the search criteria are for:

   Search Parameter	Description
   Product	Displays all the products that are available for auditing. Note: The checkboxes in the Search Results section are enabled or disabled based on the product selected.
   Business Object Type	Narrows the search results to a specific business object, within the selected product. Enables the Show User-Related Details, Show Attribute Details, and Show Additional Object Identifier Columns checkboxes in the search results. Note: If you're generating the audit history report of a scheduled process, you must select the Business Object Type for your product. Otherwise, you'll get a blank report.
   Include child objects	Displays all the child objects that were listed for a business object when audit was set up. For example, a sales order object that contains several items as child objects. Objects are displayed at the immediate parent-child level only. To view the children at subsequent levels, select the child object as the business object type and search again.
   Include attachment details	This checkbox is displayed only when you select a business object associated with attachments. Displays additional event types for attachments in the Event Type list. These event types include the check-in, checkout, and download options for the attachments. Based on the selection, information about the check-in, checkout, and download actions done on attachments are displayed in the search results.
   Show User-Related Details	Displays the user ID. Note: For legacy data, also displays the name and ID of the impersonator who updated the objects during an impersonation session.
   Show Attribute Details	Enables the attribute list so that you can select either all attributes, or a specific attribute to view the changes. Based on the selection, the search results indicate whether an attribute is created, updated, or deleted, and the corresponding old and replaced values.
   Show Additional Object Identifier Columns	Displays the instances (contexts) in which the business object was used. The context values identify the objects and the transactions in which they were used. Each context is unique and assigns a unique description to the business object.

   For example, to get the audit report for all the insert and update operations of the business object type Item, belonging to the product Product Hub, use these search parameters:

   • From the Product list, select Product Hub.
   • From the Event Type list, select Object Data Insert and Object Data Update.
   • From the Business Object Type list, select Item.

   You can also specify any other details from the search criteria.
3. Click Search.

   In the Search Results section, you can see the audit report.

   Tip: You can also select the check boxes in the Search Results section and refine the search results to view more information.