What does the change log monitor and can it be
It can monitor whatever you want. Search the help, it will show you how to set it up. It’s a data directive BPM. You decide what field you want to watch and it logs changes. Don’t get carried away logging too much or you will get a useless mess.
BTW, we are seeing that this is only a change log and there is minimum logging for new records. You will get a message that says “New Record” but other than the Key Fields and the associated user, you will not see the values set for the fields selected in your directive. This is true for all 10.x versions and I don’t recall if the behavior was the same in Vantage or E9.
I’m willing to add an enhancement request if others would like to see the values of added records in the Change Log.
Mark W.
P.S. There is an exception for those commands that create a record with no data which get updated later in the transaction.
That is interesting. Since I’ve been here and tried to suggest different things I get the “Change Log shows everything” raod block. And now it seems it doesn’t show every little detail. And I understand why that is not always beneficial. But I’m working with my those in management to figure out what they think would be best.
We’ve been using the change log for years, but we were much happier with it in Vantage. Today in E10.1.400.10 we get only the one collection method – DAILY – set in company Config > Modules > All Modules > General. Unfortunately the Daily method creates text entries that are extremely difficult to parse to be of use for our business controls. We’d be so much happier if the “By User” or “Each Transaction” collection methods worked, but they don’t. In Sept 2015 we were told …
After further investigation on the issue you reported, I found that there are a couple of SCRs on this Change Log Collection method.
Long story short is that the Change log Collection method field has been made obsolete, The field is available on the UI but there is no code behind to support it.
This unfortunately is by design but there are plans to “Enhance” its function with Audit tracking functionality, coming in the future release, it will take care of the functionality without the need to change any settings on the Company Configuration UI.
The SCRs are 157822 & 157761 and are targeted for the 10.1 release due out soon. I’m sorry for the inconvenience of this application behavior.
Well, i guess will just have to wait until the enhancement comes out. TO be honest not a big issue right now, but very well could be. So definitely going to keep my eyes open for that update.