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Hi All,
I would like to create an sort of automated changelog tool. What i would like to do is to determine if an field(attribute) within an entity has been changed/updated in an specific timeslot.
I noticed that using the metadata cache this information is not available and therefore I'm unable to get all changes.
I know that via the metadata cache i'm able to get the introducedversion param, but that won't give me the date/time of an changed field.
Does anyone has an clever idea on how to determine if an attribute has been changed in c#?
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Hi Tim
To implement it, could you give please share more detail for this implementation?
Hi Joe. Thanks for your reply. I'm talking about customizations not value changes and therefore i think i't impossible to use the audit log
At Altriva, we wrote a tool (a scheduled Azure WebJob) that exports CRM entities, fields, views, workflows, etc. to CSV files and to SQL Server tables. We then run a diff on the exported data to identify new/updated parts of CRM. This also allows for sending out summary emails with CRM changes for the day or week.
We're not a product company, so this is something that we use internally. I'm mentioning it to provide another idea if someone wants to use the same approach.
CRM does not keep any useful auditing information on CRM metadata. The only approach I can think of is that you could write a scheduled process to periodically export a solution using the ExportSolution message. You could then have another process that unzipped the solution, and compared the attribute metadata in the customization.xml file.
And/or you could vote for Microsoft to provide metadata auditing
Hi Maarten,
Is there a reason you are not using auditing? maybe it does not give you what you want
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg309735.aspx
Joe
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