Auditing Overview

Use the Audit feature to view tasks performed by users. You can filter audited tasks by audit type (for example, Data, Approvals, or Clear Cell Details), date range (for example, Yesterday or Last 60 Days), and user name.

You must be a Service Administrator to enable audit tracking, and to view and export audit information.

These are the types of user activities the system can log in the task audit:

Table 21-1 Tasks That Can be Audited

Audit Types	Tracked Changes
Dimension Administration	Dimension hierarchy: Adding a member or dimension; moving, deleting, and changing properties; renaming a member and dimension Performance settings: Resetting a dimension's dense or sparse setting, changing the order of dimensions Currencies: Adding or deleting currencies, setting a triangulation or reporting currency
Alias Table Administration	Changes to alias tables: Creating, copying, renaming, deleting, and clearing
Data	Cell values Supporting detail Account annotations Cell-level documents Note: The audit log only captures modifications if the data change occurs within a data form. If a modification occurs as part of, for example, a business rule calculation, a data map, or a direct data load to Oracle Essbase, it will not be captured in the audit log.
Launch Business Rules	Updates from calculation scripts and business rules (including runtime prompts)
Form Definition	Forms: Creating, moving, deleting forms (The audit record doesn't record how the design changed.)
Form Folder Administration	Folders: Created, moved, and deleted
Approvals	Approvals: Approval unit owners and status
Copy Version	Versions copied, including supporting detail, cell text, cell attachments, and data without any details. The audit record doesn't record details (such as data and supporting detail) of the copied version.
Security	Access permissions to dimension members, forms, form folders, business rules, and task lists
Users Administration	Users added, changed, and deleted
Groups Administration	Groups added, changed, and deleted; users added and removed
Tasklist	Task lists: created, updated, saved, moved, and deleted
Copy Data	Users' selections for Static Dimensions, Source Dimension, and Destination Dimension, including supporting detail, cell text, cell attachments, and data without any details
Clear Cell Details	Users' selections for clearing supporting details, comments, and attachments
Variables	Variables (substitution variables and user variables): Added, changed, and deleted

The Audit page displays the following information:

• Audit (task)

• Source

• Action

• User

• Name

• Date

• Details

• Property

• Old Value

• New Value

All columns can be sorted in ascending or descending order.