Logging for Data Card View
The Efecte administrator can enable a logging for data card views from the template editor:

Following actions will be logged, when “Log data card views” is enabled:
- Reading the list view
- Reading the list view in the Administration side
o Viewing the single data card - Viewing the single data card in Administration side
o Exporting data cards to Excel file - Logging of data card views of the template is enabled or disabled
Following actions are not logged:
- Tooltip quick view reference towards logged template’s data card
- Automatically opened references
- None of the graphical reports
- WebAPI queries or any kinds of integrations
- Any data output from in the Scheduled tasks side, like ReportExportTask
- Related searches (magnifying glass)
- Direct link to data card edit mode
- Exporting data cards to XML –file in the Administration side
Logging is started when a user views or edits the data card. Only one entry is logged, if the user repeatedly views the data card without leaving the page.
The log-file can be found from the Maintenance tab under: “Data card access log”
Format of the log file
This chapter includes technical information related to log-file contents.
Log’s format is following:
\w+\|INFO\|(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2}) (\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})\|\w+\|(\.|\d)+|\sType:\s(List view|Data card|Setting update|Configuration Export),\sTemplate:.+,\s(Entity|Entities|Value):(\s.+(\s\(id:\s\d+\))*;)+\n
Log4j pattern is following:
%c{1}|%p|{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss}|%X{ipaddress}|%X{userUid}| Type: %X{type}, Template: %X{template}, %m%n
Example output to the log-file of data card list view:
DataCardViewLogService|INFO|2017-08-28 15:22:00|10.1.3.100|user1| Type: List view, Template: Security Incident (191134) (code: security_incident), Entities: Brute force attack on user account (id: 200702); CRSF attack possibility in employee survey (id: 200724); Email phishing attempt (id: 200746);
Example output to log-file of single data card view:
DataCardViewLogService|INFO|2017-08-28 15:22:04|10.1.3.100|user1| Type: Data card, Template: Security Incident (191134) (code: security_incident), Entity: Brute force attack on user account (id: 200702);
The following content is in the log
- Type (list report or view mode of the data card)
- Timestamp
- User
- Accessing IP address (IP address might also come from the proxy or from the EIM-solution)
- Template
- Viewed data card name
- Data card ID (unique value)
- Information when setting is disabled on the template base
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