Audit Trail Operations
The Analyst tool creates an audit trail of the changes that users make to the records in a task. To view the audit trail for a task, open the task and select the Data Audit tab in the Exceptions workspace.
The audit trail displays the record data and the status indicator values for each record that a user updates in a task. In addition, the audit trail identifies the user who made the update and the date and time of the update. The audit trail displays the rows in chronological order. If another user updated a record in an earlier task, the audit trail includes the update from the earlier user.
Consider the following rules and guidelines when you view the audit trail:
- •Each row in the audit trail represents a single update to a record. If you make multiple updates to a record, the audit trail adds a row for each update.
- •When you change a data value in a record, the audit trail highlights the value. Move the pointer over the value to see the previous value. The audit trail also identifies the user who changed the record, the date of the change, and the type of change.
- •By default, the audit trail displays all of the data in each record. If the Analyst tool does not grant you permission to view a column of data in the task, the audit trail does not display the column. If a user updated a record value in an earlier task and you do not have viewing permissions for the value, the audit trail does not display the value.
- •The Informatica domain configuration determines the location of the audit trail data. The Analyst tool can write all audit trail data to tables in a single database. Or, the Analyst tool can write audit trail data for each task to the database that contains the records in the task. For information about the audit trail data in your domain, contact the Informatica domain administrator.