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Reports: Generate an audit report for user activity

Admins can generate and analyse user activity reports to audit profile changes, track editors, and keep accurate compliance records.

Who it's for: Administrators and users with the relevant reporting permissions

Platform: Web app

Available on: All plans

Before you begin, make sure you’re:

☑️ Logged into Sense HR

☑️ Assigned administrator permissions (or relevant reporting permissions for your access role)


Overview

The user activity audit report lets administrators track changes to user and profile data, providing an event overview that shows who did what and when. After generating a report you can export it, create charts, or analyse with AMI.


Navigation path

Dashboard > Reports > User activity 

Steps to create a user activity audit report

Navigate to user activity reports

  1. Open Reports from the left-hand navigation menu.

  2. Scroll down to User activity and select it.

  3. Click Create.


Create your report

  1. Choose the fields you want to include in the report.

    You can choose from the options like:

    User audit summary fields
    Audit #: Unique ID for the audit record (required)

    Actioned on: Date and time the action took place.

    Actioned by: The user who carried out the action.

    User action: What the user did (e.g., Personal document signed).

    Type of action: For example, Updated, Deleted, Signed, Approved

    Profile: The profile affected by the action.

    Screen: The screen where the action happened.

    Screen record #: Unique ID of the record affected in that screen.

    Fields changed: The field where the action happened

    What changed?: The actual change that took place

    User comments: Any comments the user added.

    Field update history fields
    Field name: The name of the field that was updated.
    Field value: The new value entered.
    Old value: The value before the update.

    Screen data snapshot fields
    Field name: The name of the field captured in the snapshot.
    Field value: The value of that field at the time of the snapshot.

  2. Click Next to load your results.

  3. (Optional) Use Manage fields to refine your report by adding fields or removing fields

  4. (Optional) Use filters to further refine your report


Save your report

  1. Click Report details

  2. Enter a Report name, (optional) Report description, and (optional) AMI prompt for analysis.

  3. Close the Report details dialog

  4. You can either:
    • Click Save changes and then click Back to save as a draft
    • Click Save changes and then click Publish to finalise the report
    Changes to Report details are not saved until you click Save changes

🖊️ Note: Analyse with AMI is available on Elite and Enterprise plans only.


Use your report

You can now:

  • Export the report as a CSV

  • Create charts to visualise the data

  • Analyse with AMI for insights (Elite and Enterprise only)


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