Audit Trail report
The Audit Trail records changes to your employee records: who made the change, what they changed, and when.
Where: My Team › Reports › Audit Trail You need: the Reports (team) right
What a row tells you
Each entry captures:
- Who made the change
- What action they took
- What was changed — the record type and which record
- The change itself — what the value was before and after
- When it happened
Because the before-and-after values are kept, the trail answers "what did this used to say?", not merely "somebody edited this".
Two timestamps, not one
Entries carry both when the change was made and when the underlying request was created. These differ whenever a change went through approval — the request was raised on Monday and approved on Thursday.
If you are reconstructing a sequence of events, use the request date to understand when someone asked, and the change date to understand when it took effect. Reading only one of them makes an approval delay look like a late edit.
What to use it for
- "This was correct last month" — find what it said and who changed it.
- A payroll figure that moved — trace the profile change behind it.
- After an access review — check what someone did with a right before you narrow it.
- Compliance questions — evidence that a change was made, by whom, and when approved.
What it is not
The audit trail records changes to records. It is not an activity log of what people looked at, and it will not tell you who viewed a salary. If your question is about viewing rather than changing, the answer is in user rights — who could have seen it — rather than here.