Setting up audits

The Operations and Regulations auditing tools track when selected records in your database are created, read, updated, or deleted. To set up auditing, you first use the Workflow Manager to select the records you want to audit by adding formulas to your business objects. You can then use Audit Information to view the audit results.

Note: For performance reasons, we do not recommend general auditing of all loads and updates. The auditing tools should be limited to specific business cases.

To add an audit formula in the Workflow Manager, first select the business object and event you want to audit. For example, to create a log when a new service request is added to the database, you would add a formula to the AfterAdd event of the ServiceRequest business object. The formula uses the Hansen.core/.AuditingTrail object, as in this example:

dim res as Hansen.core/.Result

dim audit as Hansen.core/.AuditingTrail.IAuditDetail = 
ServerApplication.NewComponent ( "Hansen.core/.AuditingTrail.AuditDetail",
oServiceRequest.UserInfo)

'Audit create
res = audit.Audit(oServiceRequest, oServiceRequest.UserInfo, 
Hansen.core/.AuditingTrail.AuditTrailEventType.Create, "Auditing the 
initial creation of a service request")

return res

You can use similar formulas to audit an object's AfterLoad, AfterUpdate, and BeforeDelete events. For a load audit, change AuditTrailEventType.Create to AuditTrailEventType.Read; for an update audit use AuditTrailEventType.Update; and for a delete audit use AuditTrailEventType.Delete.