What kind of documents do you mean? Web pages or something else?

If these are webpages, then each web page has History of changes list and it shows what was changing this page, when and even showing you how it was looking before.

I am new to the community and not seeing a way to leave a comment on this subject except reply to you :)

We would love to have this feature for our chapter... there have been some concerns and we need to ability to see who is making what changes.

What can we do as a chapter to request this feature?

Thanks,

Clara Rose

ASTD Florida Suncoast Chapter has had numerous unauthorized changes to documents on the website and no way to discover who made the change, the date or the time the change was made. Most systems have a logging feature built into the website to track all incoming http and ftp traffic. This allows users to get a date time stamp to associate with these 'changes' and a user ID associated with this transaction. We need this ability to be able to track/discover who is making unauthorized changes to posted information to members on the website. I notice other users are requesting this same tracking ability. Please let us know when this feature may be available and thank you.

Thank you for the comment. It also goes well with the similar one about events - http://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308932-wishlist/suggestions/8825932-track-who-adds-an-event-10137

We still do not have enough votes here yet (we decided to focus on ones that have 10 or more people commented - see http://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308932-wishlist/suggestions/8827717-roadmap-2015-plans-releases-expected-dates ), but I personally find this idea very important and I would really appreciate if other people would comment here so we can prioritize it higher.

We are currently evaluating WildApricot and I have to strongly agree with Becky. I'm surprised that a system such as this, where there is the potential for multiple people to change a lot of data, does not have a simple activity log of changes.

The log does not need to be elaborate (and arguably shouldn't be), but does need to identify the field changed, by whom and when. The nice to have beyond that would be the old value before the change.

I would love to see this feature in the Roadmap so that WildApricot gets a qualified tick in that box rather than a cross.

Cheers

Becky, thank you, your ideas are much appreciated.

I'm thinking of abbreviated history info, not too much detail. For example, a listing that can be searched by date range, admin name, account name, webpage name, and a short 2 or 3 words about the action taken, such as:

Date Admin Account/Web Page Action Taken

6/14/2013 Sue Jones Sam Smith, contact #101234 Email changed
6/15/2013 Bob Taff Issues, web page #96878 Revised
6/16/2013 Sue Jones Pete Green, member #68445 New membership
6/16/2013 Sue Jones Pete Green, member #68445 Pmt posted
6/16/2013 Sue Jones Grace Sims, contact #32198 Donation deleted
6/17/2013 Bob Taff About Us, web page #36721 Revised
6/17/2013 Sue Jones Rose Miller, member #50922 Mbr Renewal, invoice
6/17/2013 Sue Jones Rose Miller, member #50922 Pmt posted
6/17/2013 Tom Davis Ben Brown, member #99622 Mbr Renewal, no invoice
6/17/2013 Sue Jones Mary Adams, contact #101675 New contact

With a list like this it would be easy to scan and identify areas to investigate. In this case, the assumption is that Bob Taff can make web page changes. The areas to check would be the actions on Grace Sims' account (why was a donation deleted?) and Ben Brown's account (why was a membership renewed without payment?).

Or, simply a static list that can be exported to Excel for sorting.

Becky Parsons

Becky, there are different ways to track database history depending on the intended usage. What would really help us is a a detailed example of a couple of situations of how this might be used in your organization.

I'm adding to a thread that is 2 years old. But this triggers a question I've had in my mind for a long time.

Wild Apricot is the only software system I've experienced that has no history of database changes. When there are several people who can access the database, or just to identify a mistake, it is valuable to have such a history.

We should be able to search the database history by: admin name, change date range, contact/member name, contact account number.

You're right - we have been talking about for a long time but without any practical results. Too many other thing we focused on.

I think that it is not enough to just know who deleted something and when but also there should be a way restore this information somehow. Or you think it's enough to start from just logging admins activity and do not focus on restoring?

I remember this issue coming up years ago. I thought you built the backbone for this, but never implemented it? For instance, I use or maybe still do get a pop up when I delete a registration asking why the registration was deleted. Can't remember if that pop up still shows up now or not. Not sure why you didn't move forward with that.

I also remember about a year ago a discussion thread regarding implementing an audit trail or an activity log report that could be viewed to show what is going on and happening on the application. Not sure what ever came of that. The audit log or activity log would be very useful as I know we have wondered what happened at times when funky stuff happens on the WA site. Hope to see that come back up on the to do list.

This is not currently possible - good point, I can see why this might be useful.

It would be useful to be able to know when notes are added in the contact database and by whom if there is with more than one person adding data. e.g. "Called her and l/m re: missed payment" More useful if entered as: "2014-05-12-JH-Called and l/m re....."