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Read option in Audit log

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Posted on by Maverick 182

Hi experts,

I have a requirement to get the Audit log of GL transactions. I know we can enable the the log in system administration and  can track Insert, Update, Delete and Rename key option.

Is there any possible way that we can track log View option also. I couldn't find any documentation related to read option.

If there is no option, is it ideal to develop a custom log functionality which tracks all logs related to GL.

Thank you

Pavan

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    nmaenpaa Profile Picture
    nmaenpaa 101,160 Moderator on at

    It's not possible to track who has read your transactions. And I don't think that it's necessary for the auditor, either.

    Instead you can provide a list of users who have access (via security roles) to read this information.

    Developing some functionality around it would be quite difficult, since you would need to cover D365 forms, data entities, Financial Reporting and custom services in order to capture all scenarios where someone might read data from the database. And if you use BYODB or other external solution for data export & analysis, then you would need to develop some way to log the read operations in those systems as well.

  • André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    André Arnaud de Cal... 301,069 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

    Hi Paven,

    I never heard of this requirement before on GL transactions. It would be a customization anyway.

    Can you tell if it is about certain transactions only or all transactions? Usually when somebody is not allowed to view transactions, you can restrict access to the form using security configuration. If it is about certain transactions, you can also consider eXtensible Data Security to restrict access on data.

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    Maverick 182 on at

    Yes, Andre it is for all GL transactions

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    nmaenpaa 101,160 Moderator on at

    There's a good reason why the read operations can't be tracked. That would have a HUGE performance impact, because it would turn every "read" operation in "write" (since you would need to write the log).

    For example if user fetches 100 journal lines, the log would need to write 100 log lines (so that you could see which lines the user has seen).

    If some user prints a report that shows 100 000 transactions, the system would need to write 100 000 lines of log.

    Anyway, did you discuss with the auditor? Do they really require this? Or are they happy if they get a list of users who have read access to the data?

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