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ServiceNow Things to Know 55: How to activate/deactivate auditing for a specific table or field?

Import · Dec 28, 2023 · article

Hello Everyone,

The normal auditing mechanism will record in the auditing tables (such as sys_audit) changes in the value of a field on a specific table.

details the general steps for auditing specific fields or specific tables. However, in certain cases, a user might want to configure table auditing inclusion list configuration instead. Inclusion list auditing is ideal in the case in which the admin wants to audit only a small number of specific fields from a certain table but not the remainder of the field on that table.

Auditing can be enabled or disabled at the field or table level.

Navigate to System Definition-> Dictionary

Filter the list to locate the record with a Table name which corresponds to the table for which you intend to enable auditing and has a Type field with a value of Collection

Bring the Audit field in the list layout and select True/False for enabling or deactivating the audit for that specific table.

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