Not sure if this feature already exists, otherwise there’s a lot of demand for it. To our current understanding, Specify only records the TimeStampModified of a record (be it a collectionobject or something else) and the agentid doing the modification, but not a history of what has been changed ove…

This kind of detail in auditing would certainly make our QA people happy.

I haven’t implemented it myself yet, so I do not know what it looks like in the front end, but I remember having seen something in the release notes of a fairly recent release, or maybe it was demonstrated at the Speciforum. In any case, I can see the data that I think you are looking for in the spa…

in the recent versions of Specify 6 all modifications are recorded in the log tables, in the preferences you can set for how long the modifications are kept An access via Specify to these tables seems not to exist though, you need something like HeidiSQL or similar

@Schuchert We have a topic on how to build audit log queries here: [image] How to Query the Audit Log Query Building If you want to use Specify’s audit feature, these documents are the best place to start. If you are using Specify 7, this video will demonstrate how to bu…

We’re elated to hear this is already a well-supported feature in Specify! :grinning:

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@Schuchert We have a topic on how to build audit log queries here:

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