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#25858 Export the exceptions log

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Latest post by on Friday, 09 September 2016 17:20 CDT

scsfw
Hi.

I am using Akeeba Admin Tools Professional to satisfy some of the security audit requirements of a governmental organisation.

They have a number of requirements, and Admin Tools is doing a great job of meeting a lot of them. However there is one requirement that they have which Admin Tools isn't meeting -- they need to be able to export the logs on a monthly basis so that they can be sent to an auditor, and also to to ad-hoc exports based on manual views of the log -- ie admin user browses list of exceptions; selects specific filters; sees some exceptions that need further attention, and exports the log based on the filters he's currently viewing.

I'm aware of this ticket where you stated that this feature isn't available but that it is possible to read the table directly, but I have been asked to submit a new ticket to ask the question again.

Specifically, the previous question was asked three years ago, so we are wondering whether there is any change in your position since then? ie are you likely to add a log export feature? And if no, what's the reasoning for this?

Doing an automated export directly via the DB will be relatively trivial, but our ad-hoc export requirement isn't so easy to meet without having an export button on the log page.

Many thanks for you help, and thanks again for producing an awesome piece of software.

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello Simon,

at the moment there aren't any plans for an export tool, I can ask it again to Nicholas, but I'm pretty confident that it won't be developed anytime soon.
Please keep in mind that exception log table could grow up very large (we're talking about millions of rows), so extracting data could be a performance hit for your server.

In my experience, since you have custom requirements, the best thing is to develop a custom component that is searching inside Admin Tools log table. I can assure you that in the future those requirements will change and you'll have to do "hack stuff" to get the job done.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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scsfw
Hi Davide,

Thanks for the reply. Very much appreciated. I will have a look into rolling my own export functions.

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
You're welcome!

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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