Full auditing

Your content could be one of your most valuable assets. Based on regulatory and compliance requirements, you might want to have a full audit trail and accountability of user activities in your Content Management System.

Although content may be removed from the site, a full audit trail is always recoverable. That audit includes the content, all of the edited versions of the content, and a full record of exactly who did what and when.

In Alfresco, auditing is carried out in the service layer of the repository. This captures both user and application interaction with the repository. All of the user and system activities are logged and made available through the server auditing system. The data, time, user, comments, and the actual content changes, are stored and are accessible to users.

Controlling audit information

By default, auditing is disabled. To enable the default audit configuration, change the enabled attribute, which is highlighted in bold in the upcoming piece of code,...