View audit trail for cost rule, cost factors, cost rate, and cost-related resource attribute changes

The cost rule audit trail, cost factors audit trail, cost rate audit trail, and resource audit trail track modifications made to cost rule, cost factors, cost rate, or cost-related resource attribute changes made through the user interface respectively.

In this topic:

View cost rule audit trail

To view cost rule audit trail:

1. Click the Administration button in the masthead.

2. From the Administration menu, select Financials > Search Cost Rules.

3. On the Search Cost Rules page, provide any search criteria and click Search.

4. Click Edit next to the rule whose audit trail you want to view.

5. Click View Audit Trail in the page.

   The Cost Rule Audit Trail window opens.

Back to top

View cost factors audit trail

To view cost factors audit trail:

1. From the Administration menu, select Financials > Change Cost Factors.

2. Click View Audit Trail to open the Cost Factors Audit Trail window to view cost factors audit trail.

Back to top

View cost rate audit trail

You can view cost rate audit trail if you set the FM_COST_AUDIT_ENABLE parameter to true. This parameter is described in the following table.

Parameter Name	Description, Usage	Default and Valid Values
FM_COST_AUDIT_ENABLE	Flags whether or not to enable audit trail for cost rates that are used to calculate costs. If you set this parameter to true, you enable the cost rate audit trail.	Default: false Valid: true, false

When you enable the cost rate audit trail, you can view the audit trail from the following two tables:

• PPM_FM_COST_AUDIT: This table stores cost audit information, including values of all cost factors that are used in the cost rollup service when finding a rate and corresponding rate history.
• PPM_FM_COST_AUDIT_RATE: This table stores change history of cost rates that are used to calculate actual cost of tasks.

For details of these two tables, see the Data Model Guide.

Back to top

View cost-related resource attribute audit trail

To view cost-related resource attribute audit trail:

1. From the main menu bar, select Resource Management > Resources > Search Resources.

2. Provide any search criteria and click Search.

3. From the search result pages, select a resource and click the resource's username link to open the Modify Resource page.

4. Click View Audit Trail to open the Resource Audit Trail window.

   The audit trail events are listed in reverse chronological order.

   Column Name	Description
   Date	Date and time of the event.
   User	User who initiated the event.
   Event	Nature of the event in the audit trail. Events that are audited for a cost rule include the following: Create a cost rule Add a cost rate Edit a cost rate For a resource, only changes to the following cost-related attributes are tracked:  Resource category Org unit Department Region Role

Back to top