Project Filter and User Timezone added to Audit Log

We’ve made two changes to the audit log recently you may not be aware of.

Project Filter

The audit log is a great tool for tracking usage, it’s great for seeing what users have been up to as well as reverse anything that could have happened as a result of a particular users activity.

Quite a while ago we added the ability to display the audit log for just one project, by going into the Project Details Page for that project and clicking the “View Log” link top right of the page.

The Audit Log link on the Project Details Page

This would load up an audit log filtered for just that project, the problem was if you changed any other filters (like date range for example) and clicked update it would lose the project filtering (because that didn’t exist as a filter you could select).

This has now been fixed as a result of us adding a project filter in the audit log, it is available if you go into the normal audit log (for the whole account) as well as getting pre-selected to a project if you happen to use the audit log link on the project details page for that project, it lists active, completed & deleted projects sorted by project number.

Timezone Selector

The audit log has always shown you the date & time a particular action occurred alongisde its information in the audit log, this date/time was the time on the server that particular action took place which is great for administrative staff but not very helpful for the average user (where the time could be off by hours).

To make it easier for everyone involved we have now added in the option to display all the items with the User’s Date/Time so you can see when items occurred relative to yourself instead of the server, though server time is still there as an option should you wish to use that instead.

Misc

We’ve actually changed how the audit log is stored on the server as well, we now store it in your database which means it loads quicker and is included when you download a full copy of your database from the Developer Settings page. (it was previously in XML)

We’re constantly added new actions to the audit log (29 and counting), let us know if there are any specific items you want us to track before others.

Tags: filter, project, proworkflow, timezone, user