If you want the information captured by audit rules to be in custom fields, you must define these fields under a particular category of the History object. Capturing details in separate fields makes it is easier to export that information using Business Objects® reports.
Note: If you are creating audit rules for the User or the Group object definition, you cannot define fields for History categories.
To distinguish audit history records from other history records, create descriptive categories in the History object definition, such as the Information Change - Lawsuit Key Dates category, and then select the appropriate category while configuring audit rules. This technique is also useful if you decide to set security by the category rather than preventing user groups from accessing all history records.
The following table shows examples of History object categories and their custom fields that you may configure to be populated by audit rules.
History Object Definition Category and Custom Field Examples
Category name |
Custom fields |
Information Change - Lawsuit Key Dates |
•Old Trial Date •New Trial Date |
Information Change - Contact |
•Address •Address (old) •Contact Rate •Contact Rate (old) •Email Address •Email Address (old) •Fax Number •Fax Number (old) •Phone Number •Phone Number (old) |
For details about defining categories, see Using Categories. For details on defining custom fields, see Custom Fields.
