Filtering the events displayed in the Event Log

Before you begin

To view the Event Log, you must have system administration privileges. The default filter settings are the following:

About this task

The default filter settings are the following:

  • today’s date
  • the default time range is 00:00 to 23:59
  • the default number of lines is 100

Procedure

  1. In the Content Manager Explorer, access the Administration tab in the Ribbon toolbar and select Open Event Log:

    A new dialog opens, showing the Event Log interface.

  2. In this dialog, you can specify the following criteria:
    • You can select the User who triggered the logged event.
    • You can select the Server from which the logged event originated.
    • You can select the Source of the event (that is, the SDL Tridion software component that triggered it).
    • You can select the Category of the logged event.
    • Under Message Severity, you can select one or more severity values for which you want to see logged events.
    • Under Results per Page, you can specify the number of lines you want to display (defaults to 50).
    • To specify a start date, in the Date area, click the first Select date button and select the first date of logged events.
    • To specify an end date, in the Date area, click the second Select date button, and select the last day of logged events.
  3. Click Show Events.

Results

All events that passed through the filter are displayed. If there are more results than the page size specified under Results per Page, you can use the navigation controls at the bottom to go to more pages of results. The data is sorted by time, showing the most recent events first.