Occasionally during a planning process, disaster strikes. Users can accidentally delete hard-worked-on plans, change some key drivers or alter report values during a printing process. Plans may be altered by unwittingly by colleagues or by well meaning management without understanding the consequences. This is where you need to understand what has been entered in the system and by whom. Jedox gives you the flexibility to create user logs to illustrate what has changed.

So, to set up user Logging do the following:

Step 1. Change your palo.ini

Ensure your palo.ini has the following lines

worker “C:\Program Files\Jedox\Jedox Suite\svs\SupervisionServer.exe”
workerlogin information
use-cube-worker

Step 2. Change your sep.inc.php file

The file location should be here: ..Jedox\Jedox Suite\svs\sep.inc.php. Change the file to look like this:

<pre><?php
 /* include './sample_scripts/sep.inc.default.php'; */
 include './custom_scripts/sep.inc.changelog.php';
?>

Step 3. Download the changelog script here

Step 4. Copy to location

Copy the sep.inc.changelog.php to ..\Jedox\Jedox Suite\svs\custom_scripts folder.

Step 5. Modify sep.inc.changelog.php script.

So, by default the Supervision script is listening to the Demo/Sales cube for 2015 and Budget only. Any value changed outside of this range will not be logged. Change the database and cube reference to the one that you want to log, and modify the dimension arrays to suit your model. NOTE: It is not a good idea to log everything (all versions, years, etc) as Supervision Server will log out at all times, including when you run and ETL Process. Much more efficient to just specify the area that you want to “listen” to:

 if($database == "Demo") {
     if($cube == "Sales") {
     // array, $elements (nested: dimensions, element names)
       $AreaA = array(
         DIMENSION_TOTAL,
         DIMENSION_TOTAL,
         DIMENSION_TOTAL,
         array("2015"),
         array("Budget"),
         DIMENSION_TOTAL
       );
       $this->WatchCubeArea($AreaA, 'FunctionA');
     }
 }

Step 6. Restart Supervision Server.

If you have been run Supervision Server on your Jedox server, you can just restart it using the web interface:

 

The ‘live’ restart of Supervision Sever is very handy as you can modify your script, restart and see the results.

Step 7. See the results.

Change a value in a cube where the script will be triggered.

 

Now, go to Logs in System Manager and filter Message with text “cell changed”

You will see that the old value, new value, username and time stamp is logged here. You have complete freedom in the script to log what you want. For example, you could log the location/IP of the user, the delta value, and anything else that may be important to identify the person who has changed the data.