====== Mystic Help ======

===== Audit Log =====

The Mystic Audit Log can be found at **[Staff Menu] > [Tools] > [Audit Log]** and is designed for suitably authorised users to investigate the activity that is taking place on their Mystic installation and database.

{{:pergamonmystic:linkedhelp:mystichelp_auditlog_0001.jpg?direct&200 |}} The [Audit Log] layout is very simple, consisting of a basic toolbar, a series of criteria which can be entered to reduce the number of the audit log entries retrieved, and the audit log entries themselves in a paged listing.

Whenever criteria are changed, use the **[Refresh]** toolbar icon to refresh the displayed list of audit log entries. To move back and fort between the list of identified audit log entries, use the **[Back]** and **[Forward]** toolbar icons.

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===== Criteria =====

The criteria section allows the user to enter a series of search parameters which operate in a boolean **[AND]** manner (i.e. all criteria entered are combined together to determine whether an audit log entry should be displayed) in order to narrow down the audit log entries being displayed.

  * **User** - Select an authorised staff user from the drop-down list to restrict entries which are directly attributed to that user.
  * **Reader** - A word or phrase which matches elements of the reader record, being compared using the adjacent drop-down.
  * **Item** - A word or phrase which matches elements of the catalogue record, being compared using the adjacent drop-down.
  * **After** and **Before** - A date after which the audit-log records should be matched, before, or a combination of the two. The date should be entered in the standard international reverse-date format as used by the Structured Query Language (i.e. YYYY-MM-DD , YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS etc.)
  * **Remarks** A word or phrase which matches elements of the audit-log entry remark, being compared using the adjacent drop-down.

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===== Audit Log Entries =====

Each audit log entry consists of seven (7) fields.

  * **UID** - The unique database ID of the audit-log entry.
  * **User** - The internal code representing the user responsible for the audit-log entry being created.
  * **Reader** - Any reader which was directly affected by the audit-log action (e.g. A field in the reader record being changed). May be empty.
  * **Item** - Any item which was directly affected by the audit-log action (e.g. a field in the item record being changed). May be empty.
  * **Remark** - A description of the work done which raised this audit-log entry. The remark is formatted for later processing by reports and other functions.
  * **Time Stamp** - The time stamp of what this audit-log entry was created.
  * **Type** - An internal references to the type of activity being undertaken which raised this audit-log entry. This reference is used for further reporting and functional processing.


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