17. Auditing Changes

Add auditing information for data changes to your application. To recap the steps in the video:

Audit Manual Data Changes

1. Open the configuration form for the stream Businesses and tick Audit Manual Changes. This will add the following audit attributes and their respective expressions to your stream:

   1. UpdateAction: "INSERT". This should be changed to “IMPORT” for this exercise

   2. UpdatedByName: _user.fullUsername

   3. UpdatedTime: now()

   4. UpdatedByID _NULL

2. Go into App Mode and make some changes to your business data.
3. Now create a new view to show all history.
   1. First create a new dashboard Businesses All History.
   2. Drag the stream Businesses onto this dashboard and add all attributes to the view.
      • Hide the UID attribute.
   3. Open the view configuration form.
   4. Update the Name to Business All History.
   5. Remember to set a Default Sort Order.
   6. Include History Records: tick
   7. Save your changes.
4. In the new view, you can see full details of the changes you just made to the Businesses data.
5. Add a menu item to the Businesses view to provide a link from the Businesses dashboard to the Business All History dashboard.
6. Go into App Mode to test the new configuration.

To test the configuration, go into App Mode and import the test file: Import_Businesses_3.csv. You will see a new business, "EDQ Empire" has been imported. Apply an update to this contact. Open the Business All History dashboard. You will now see two entries for this business, one for the import of the business and a second for the manual update you have just applied.