Track Security Role Changes Using Auditing

Have you been in a situation where the client is complaining about sudden access to unwanted entities not required for their process or suddenly they are not able to perform some set of actions? If yes, this article is going to help you.

 

Solution

This is very common in CRM implementation especially when multiple resources are supported and there is no track of the changes done into the system. So how to identify what changes are done and who has done these changes? Do you know we have an easy way to identify it and that’s available out of the box!!

 
We can enable auditing by navigating Settings-> Auditing, from this area we can enable global auditing setting for your organization, entity auditing for entity and respective fields, view audit summary and can also work with audit logs. Click on Global Audit Settings option to enable auditing, this will open Auditing tab under System Settings dialog. Click on Start Auditing and Common Entities check box to enable auditing for common entities. It will enable auditing for the following entities,

We can also enable auditing for other entities used for sales, marketing and service.

 

After that, we can click on "Entity and Field Audit Settings" to enable auditing at entity and field level. In our case, we want to use auditing feature for security role entity so this will be enabled already. Now open any security role and do some changes, or create new security role. Once done with changes navigate to Settings->Auditing again and click on Audit Summery View, we should be able to see our changes like following,

 

Further, we can double click on record to view the details like following.

 

Hope it will help someone.