Viewing the user activity audit trail

Administrators use the User Activity Audit Trail to view actions performed by users in their login group. You can filter this activity by username, activity, date, or any combination. The User Activity Audit Trail also includes activities of deleted users.

1.         Click Settings.

The Settings page appears.

2.         From the Monitor System section, click View User Activity Audit Trail.

The User Activity Audit Trail page appears.

3.         From the User drop-down list, select a user, or to view activities for all users, select --.

Deleted users are denoted in the drop-down list with the (deleted) status appended to their usernames.

4.         In the Start Date and End Date fields, specify a time period for which to include user activities, or before or after a specific date. Enter dates in the format MM/DD/YYYY, or click the Calendar icon Calendar control to select dates.

To include all activity for all users and activities, leave these fields blank.

5.         Select the activities that you want to include in the report.

Note: To include Publish, Rename, and Copy activities, select the appropriate Edit activity.

6.         Click View User Activity.

The User Activity Audit Trail appears and provides the following information:


Column

Description

ID

Unique activity identifier.

Username

Username of the user who performed the activity.

Note: The report denotes deleted users by appending (deleted) to the username.

Session

Unique identifier for the user's Empirica Signal session.

IP Address

IP address of the computer used to connect to the application. In cases, where the connected user is a system user the IP address displays ::1 (local).

Activity Name

Category and name of the activity.

Activity Date

Date and time when the user activity occurred. The date and time format is determined by a site option, and by your time zone preference.

Additional Information

Details about the activity that was performed. This might include the name and unique identifier of an object where the identifier is in parentheses, such as CaseSeries=My Case Series(533). For system errors, an error ID appears. The Signal server log file contains the same error identifier and more details about the error.

For information about viewing, printing, or downloading tables or changing the way data displays in the User Activity Audit Trail, see About tables.

 

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