The History Log module is an audit trail that allows system administrators to keep informed of changes to the website's content.
Module Features
- Track every administrative action that occurs on the website
- Searchable by start and end dates, start and end times, content type, action types
- Export history searches
- Search displays module name, content name, the path taken to the hyperlink (breadcrumb), link to the content, modified by, ID (identification) type and number, date last modified, and the status of the action
View the History Log
- Sign in to your website solution
- Navigate to the History Log module:
- Click the Modules dropdown menu
- Click the Site Tools tab
- Select History Log
- View the History Log:
- Title/Item: The item's type and name
- Date Modified: The date and time of the action performed
- Modified By: The name of the person who performed the action
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Item: An identification (ID) number for the item
- ARC: Archive ID
- CID: Category ID
- DID: Document ID
- FID: Folder ID
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QID: Question ID
Note: The alphanumeric identification may use different acronyms based on which module's History Log you're viewing.
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Action: The action performed
Note: The History Log is divided up by module. For example, all Document Center actions are grouped.
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Would be helpful to search and/or filter by user name instead of just by module. Please explore adding filters or search options to history log in addition to module sorting.
The history log is a great example of the kind of thing that frustrates me most about the CivicPlus platform. You have these great tools, but they often lack a key feature which prevents them from being truly useful. It's like someone designed this and it looked good on paper but never used it to see what its shortcomings are.
Today, I'm trying to track all the actions taken with a single, specific page, but there doesn't appear to be a way to search for history items related to just a specific page. So instead I'm getting 60+ pages of results, almost all of them pertaining to other pages, and having to spend time wading through a lot of unnecessary information.
More granularity with searching the history log would be GREATLY appreciated (or maybe that exists and I'm not seeing it? I hope.) To be blunt, as this tool currently exists, it's pretty much useless.
I would like to see a search box that allowed the search of user name, item title, etc., then, the ability to click on an item and see it's individual history.
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