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System Auditing in NAV

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Hello,

I have a few audit related questions that I was hoping to get some answers on.

1. What sort of information does NAV log when an user does a journal entry. We know that the user id is logged. What about information such as date/time.

2.  Can a person who is going to post a journal entry modify the entry and then post it?  Or would that require a second person to approve it first in the system?

3. Does NAV log any administrator activity (showing if they did things like add / remove users, or make any configuration changes in the system, and when)? 

4. Does Nav track changes to its configuration / tables / reports (i.e. as in when a change was made, who made the change in the system, etc) if it does not have the change management module installed. Is there any other way to log this information?

Many thanks for your help in advance.

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  • Rashed Profile Picture
    Rashed 3,765 on at

    1)  A journal entry is not a financial document thus a user can enter and modify it as many times as they can. You can enable it change log module to record the changes.  Offcourse everything is written to the sql log file.

    2)You can enable it change log module. . a user can modify any way they like and as long as it balances and is within their permission to be able to post a journal and within their posting date range.  There is no approval process for entering journals.  You can off-course build that functionality.  Offcourse everything is written to the sql log file.

    3)You can enable it change log module. The tables are filtered in setup but they can be changed to include the login/perission tables.   it has little use, considering an administrator would be doing it. Offcourse everything is written to the sql log file.

    5) Everything is written to the sql log file. There are tools to read sql log file.

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    Hi Rashed,

    Thanks for your reply. Seems like enabling change log will capture a lot of data that we'd need in case we need to audit something in NAV. However, you have mentioned there are tools to read the sql log file - does that mean change log itself doesn't have the feature to read the logs it captures?

    If so, are these tools free to use? Can you please provide an example of such tool?

    Thanks again :)

  • Rashed Profile Picture
    Rashed 3,765 on at

    the change log is a simple table and nav allows you to see it.

    I was referring to sql log file which is a physical file and there are tools to look at it and I don't if they are useful but I have never used them.

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