See What Forage Has Been Doing
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Purpose: see, in one list, what has happened recently: how many files Forage has read, searches and other actions, settings that were changed, and files that could not be read.
- Open Records, then Activity. A line at the top shows how many files Forage has read in the last hour and in the last 24 hours, and how many entries the list is showing. Files that have been read are counted there rather than listed one by one.
- Choose what to list with the buttons under it: Everything, Searches and other actions, Settings changes or Files that could not be read.
- Read each entry. When says how long ago it happened (rest the pointer on it for the date and time). Type is Action, Setting change or Could not be read. Who is the person who did it, or, when Forage made the change itself, says so, for example "Forage, when it was set up". What happened says it in words, and Item names what it was done to: a setting, a rule and its version, a report, or a file by its name.
- For a setting change, Details shows the old value, an arrow and the new value, the reason that was given, what the change did to files already listed (for example how many were set aside or removed from Forage), and the date from which the change is in use. A change to where Forage reads, to the file types it reads, or to what happens to an excluded site shows Not yet applied to existing files until it has been applied.
- For a search, Details shows the words that were searched for. For other actions, such as a change to a label or a rule, it shows the plain details that were recorded. For a file that could not be read, the entry names the file and says why; to open the file, find it in Search or on Exceptions.
- Press the Refresh button at the top right to load the list again.
Good to know: Activity shows the most recent entries. For older entries, filters, who opened a file, the value before and after each change and an export, use the Log. Entries cannot be edited or deleted by anyone.
See the Records section for the other pages.
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