Filemaker Audit Log – YouTube
Guy Stevens is back! It’s been a while since he made any FileMaker videos, and for his return he tackles FileMaker audit logs. His 30 minute video presents one way to add auditing to your solution. The comments are mixed, as the solutions requires a lot of work to implement. To be fair, the motive driving a business to implement auditing is to track down the source of a problem, and usually that problem is in a specific area. Not every field on a form (nor in a database) requires an audit log to track down and eliminate the problem, whatever it is.
And, as always, there are alternatives:
NightWing Enterprises Ultralog V2.0 – Roy Cologon’s approach logs changes to fields you select and stores the data in a field on the record. A very powerful technique that’s been around for a while and is well-tested.
FMEasyAudit – A Tim Dietrich solution that is free, easy to integrate, and very powerful.
Filemaker Audit Log – YouTube.
January 29, 2015 @ 8:13 am
There are many ways to do an audit log. This one seems like one of hardest. The first change I would make is to decouple the script from specific fields. He hints at that at the end, but you’d be better off planning for that from the beginning. But there are still better ways to handle this, especially in FileMaker 13. Just look at some of the other examples, like FMEasyAudit, which is one of the related links here.
February 1, 2015 @ 11:20 am
I agree, Shawn. Not one of his better efforts. He could make that more modular.