Regarding row-level auditing and field-level auditing

RE: Regarding row-level auditing and field-level auditing

ramp — Tue, 07 May 2024 10:28:48 GMT

Hi Mohan,

Could you please share the articles related to these Field Level and Row level auditing on Appian records?

RE: Regarding row-level auditing and field-level auditing

Mohan Reddy Kethireddigari — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 11:59:20 GMT

Thanks for the Reply,

I got the articles related to it, and also I had completed that one.

Let me example you with an example,

Here, in my case, I have a customer table.

Row-Level Auditing: If the name of the customer is updated, then that entire record should be audited in customer_rowAudit table.

Field-Level Auditing: If the name of customer is updated, then that field should be audited in cutomer_fieldAudit table with previous value, field name, updated value and customer ID.

RE: Regarding row-level auditing and field-level auditing

Stewart Burchell — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 11:10:41 GMT

Hi Mohan - I try to consider the big picture here. What is the actual business requirement? Who needs to be able to see the audit data? What should it contain? How long does it need to be kept for? Do they need to see a full "before and after" view of every change? Or only certain changes? Do you need a full history, or just details on who and when the last change was made? There's way more to this than just the one narrow technical option being asked here.

RE: Regarding row-level auditing and field-level auditing

Stefan Helzle — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 08:25:45 GMT

This is not specific to Appian in any way and we do not know what you want to achieve.

In general, my suggestion is to implement a copy-on-write mechanism using a trigger to store a copy of the old data to a separate table before insert. Then you have all versions of the data if needed.

RE: Regarding row-level auditing and field-level auditing

Mohan Reddy Kethireddigari — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 08:22:42 GMT

Hi Stefan,

first of all, Thanks for your immediate response.

i am having some knowledge regarding the things that we do with triggers in general.

i need info particularly related to field-level auditing with a sample example

RE: Regarding row-level auditing and field-level auditing

Stefan Helzle — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 06:48:58 GMT

www.digitalocean.com/.../how-to-manage-and-use-mysql-database-triggers-on-ubuntu-18-04