1. Auditing - Vincenzo Menanno
Title Text
YAALT = Yet Anther Audit Logging Technique

2. Auditing - Vincenzo Menanno
Fiorella LucianoVincenzo Menanno
Oakland
Director of FileMaker
Development at Beezwax

3. Auditing - Vincenzo Menanno
Sharp Knives
What I Like
Parking Backwards
Measure Things

5. Peer Review/Open Discussion
Journey
Implementation
Discussion/Challenges

6. Journey
Ultra Log 2
FM Audit Log Pro
FM Data Guard
fmLog
And other approaches…
What Exists
Nightwing
1-More-Thing
Linear Blue
AppWorks

7. Journey
Curiosity
Performance
Imports on Server
Lately also exploring Exports
Cautious not to overload PSoS
PSoS

8. Improving the user experience
PopoversJourney

9. Used in conjunction with PSoS…
TransactionsJourney

10. PSoS Pop-Over
Transactions
Auditing
Journey

11. Performance Considerations
Field 1
Field 2
Field 3
Field 4
Field 5
Field 6
Field …
Server
Edit Record
View Record
Create Record
Updated Records

12. Performance Considerations
Server
Entier Record
Field 1
Field 2
Field 3
Field 4
Field 5
Field 6
Field …Only Fields With Changes
Field 5
Field 6
Field …

13. Performance Considerations
Stored vs Unstored

14. Popover
Implementation 1
Record
Field A
Field B
Field C
Globals
Field A
Field B
Field C
ModCount into Global
Audit Logging
Unpack the array.
PSoS
Update only new or
changed values. Build
array of changes.
Commit! If no errors
then we send audit log
to audit logging script.
Compare ModCount

15. Implementation 1
Record
Field A
Field B
Field C
Field D
Field E
Field F
ModCount Updated
User A
User B ModCount Updated

16. Popover
Implementation 2
Record
Field A
Field B
Field C
Globals
Field A
Field B
Field C
MD5
MD5
Audit Logging
Unpack the array.
≠
PSoS
Update only new or
changed values. Build
array of changes.
Commit! If no errors
then we send audit log
to audit logging script.

17. Popover
Implementation 3
Record
Field A
Field B
Field C
Globals
Field A
Field B
Field C
MD5 Preset
MD5 Past
Audit Logging
Unpack the array.
≠
PSoS
Update only new or
changed values. Build
array of changes.
Commit! If no errors
then we send audit log
to audit logging script.
MD5 Future
≠

18. Universal ID
User Name
Account Name
Privilege Set
Timestamp | UTC support
Action - Any type of action
Field | Table | Basetable | Label support
Data Format | Presentation ( currency, weight, temp etc )
Notes
Field ID
Features - Audit Data

19. Specify Repetition
Data Type | Text, Number, Date etc
Class | Normal, Calculated, Summary
Max Field Repetitions
Modified | Field Name
Modified | Data Type
Modified | Repetitions
Container | MD5
Container | File Size
Modification Count
Features - Audit Data

20. Primary Key | Client Friendly
Delete Record | Delete All Records | Truncate Table
Replace
Re-Lookup
Duplicate
Custom Menu Sets
ChallengesDiscussion

21. Locking things down
Run Full Access
AppleScript
ChallengesDiscussion

22. Information customers want
History of changes
Maybe no need for extra fields
Logged by Field ID
Augmenting the audits with notes
BenefitsDiscussion

23. User Friendly Labels | and More
Data Formats helps with presentation
BenefitsDiscussion

24. Single record editing
Not for restoring data
You can log as many fields as you like
What it was designed for

25. What it was designed for
• UltraLog2 by Ray Cologon
• FM Data Guard by Linear Blue
• FM Audit Log Pro 2 by 1-more-thing
• fmLog by App Works Listen to Webinar

26. Auditing - Vincenzo Menanno
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