tion Audit settings to activate at the Site
Collection level.
At Site settings, you can reach the Informs
Audit log reports page. The default Audit
reports (elimination, modification, revi-
sion, and so forth) is displayed in Excel
format; it's also possible to define new
custom reports. The Excel report has two
tabs: one for a summary of the activities
and a second for detailed information,
including site and element identifiers,
date, event type, and user.
To activate Audit at a Library level, from
the configuration page of the Library or
List use the Settings page, Information
management policy settings, Define a
policy... 'Ok, and Enable Auditing.
Activity reports can be found in the same
place as the Audit reports for the Site
Collection.
It also is possible to activate Audit for
Content Types. The procedure is the same
as with Libraries: Create the Content type
or select an existing one from the Content
type gallery, use the Information manage-
ment policy settings option, and create
the policy.
Finally, Audit can be activated at a docu-
ment or item level, but neither MOSS nor WSS have
interfaces to activate, configure, or review them. In
this instance, developers can use the Object Model to
create an interface.
Programming Audit
The objects for Site Collection, Lists, and Items
(SPSite, SPList, and SPListItem) each have a public
property 'Audit' of the SPAudit type. This class per-
mits total control over the respective Audit.
The class SPAudit has an interesting property,
'AuditFlags', making it possible to read or configure
the events to be registered (read, change, delete) and
the following four methods:
· DeleteEntries: Eliminates all the entries in the
Registery. To guarantee Audit integrity, the elimina-
tion is saved as a new activity that cannot be delet-
ed. In this way, if records are removed, a permanent
trace 'saves' the procedural history
· GetEntries: Displays the Registry collection
· Update: Saves changes made to a Registry
· WriteAuditEvent: Writes a new entry in the
Registry
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Figure 1: Configuration of Audit for a site collection.
Figure 2: Configuration of Audit for a list or library.
Finally, Audit can be activated at a
document or item level, but neither
MOSS nor WSS have interfaces to
activate, configure, or review them.
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