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# About field-level auditing

Last modified February 19, 2026

> The development of automatic data processing has made it necessary to consider protecting sensitive information.


The development of automatic data processing has made it necessary to consider
protecting sensitive information.
In certain highly regulated industries, companies
must implement auditing to address identity-management concerns related to
compliance issues.

If your company wants to ensure accountability and the ability to track user actions in the system, or wants to implement sound auditing procedures, you can use the field-level auditing available in Visma Net.

Field-level auditing functionality gives you the ability to monitor and record user
actions in Visma Net windows as recorded in the system.
The audit trail holds records of every change
users have made in the monitored windows, such as changes to documents and their
properties, modifications to customer accounts or employee records, and changes in
security policies.
You can also see who made the changes and when they took
place.

## Managing access to field-level audit functionality

Before you start configuring and turning on auditing for specific windows, you must
enable the **Field-level audit** functionality.
To give users the ability to configure,
turn on, and turn off auditing of windows, as well as view the audit trails, you
assign them the **Field-level audit** role and give them access to the windows used
to manage field-level auditing.
For more information, see: [About management of access to field-level audit functionality](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/management/manage-field-level-audit/about-management-of-access-to-field-level-audit-functionality/index.md).

## Configuring and turning on auditing of a window

If you want to maintain a record of user activity in any window, you can configure and turn on
auditing of the window.
Granular auditing is configured, turned on, and turned off on
a per-window basis.
After the window audit is configured, you can quickly turn on and
off auditing of the window.
When you turn on the audit, every time a user makes
changes to a document associated with the window and clicks
**Save**, a record is added to the audit trail the system
maintains for the window.
This record contains the details of the modification,
including who modified the document, what changes were made, and when the changes
occurred.

For more granular control, you can perform auditing of individual database tables
associated with the windows and specific database table fields.
You can audit entire
database tables or only certain database table fields, such as the fields associated
with the interface elements on the window.
For more information, see: [Configure and turn on field-level auditing for a window](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/management/manage-field-level-audit/configure-and-turn-on-field-level-auditing-for-a-window/index.md).

## Viewing an audit trail

When auditing is turned on for a window, you can select a document and view the changes made to
the document directly from the window by clicking **Audit history**
on the **Help** menu.
The audit trail shows who modified the
document and when, what window was used, when the modification took place, and what
changes were made.

Also, you can view all the changes made in the database tables of the audited window.
The audit
trail shows the user who modified the document, the date and time of the update, and
the details of the modification of the selected database table.
You can filter the
modifications that you view in any audited database table by user and by date range.

<h2>Related pages</h2><h3>Tasks</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/management/manage-field-level-audit/configure-and-turn-on-field-level-auditing-for-a-window/index.md">Configure and turn on field-level auditing for a window</a></li>
</ul>


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