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Reports and audit log

Run reports on your inventory, see who changed what and when in the audit log, and understand what is kept and for how long.

On this page

  • Overview
  • Run a report
  • Date range and grouping
  • Location reports
  • The audit log
  • Filter the audit log

Overview

Reports answer questions about your inventory right now, such as where equipment is or what is overdue. The audit log is the record of every action taken on equipment, so you can see who did what and when. When something wanders off, the audit log follows the scent.

  • Reports is open to anyone whose role allows running reports.
  • Audit log is for owners and admins only.
  • Reports can be switched off for the whole organization under Settings, Features.

Tips

  • If you cannot see Reports in the sidebar, ask an admin to check your role or the Features tab.
  • Both pages work on a phone. Tables turn into stacked rows on narrow screens.

Related: Turn features on or off, Roles and permissions

Run a report

Pick a report card at the top of the Reports page. The results and any filters for that report appear below. The report you chose is kept in the page address, so you can bookmark or share it.

  • Assets by status: how many assets sit in each status label.
  • Assets by department: how many assets each department owns.
  • Assets by location: where assets are, by location of record.
  • Location drift: assets last seen away from where they are assigned.
  • Overdue assets: assets past their due-back date.
  • Activity summary: a breakdown of actions over a date range.
  1. Open Reports from the sidebar.
  2. Select the report card you want.
  3. Set any filters shown for that report, such as a department or a due-back date range.
  4. Read the table. Select a row where it offers a link to see the matching assets.

Tips

  • Summary tiles at the top (assets by department and by status) are clickable and jump to the matching report.
  • There is no export button on the Reports page today. To keep a copy, take a screenshot or copy the table.
  • Filters stay in the address bar, so reloading the page keeps your view.

Related: Date range and grouping, Status and condition

Date range and grouping

The Activity summary report counts actions over a period. Choose the dates and how to group the counts.

  1. Open Reports and select Activity summary.
  2. Set the From and To dates.
  3. Choose a Group by value: Action, your location level, or your department level.
  4. Read the counts for each group.

Tips

  • A note under the filters shows the timezone used to count days, so a late-night checkout lands on the day you expect.
  • Group by Action shows how many checkouts, check-ins, transfers and so on happened. Group by location or department shows where the activity was.
  • Overdue assets has its own due-back date range, separate from this one.

Related: Run a report, Filter the audit log

Location reports

Two reports are about places. Assets by location uses each asset's location of record. Location drift lists assets last seen somewhere other than where they belong.

  1. Open Reports and select Assets by location, or Location drift.
  2. For Location drift, narrow the list by home location or by where the asset was last seen.
  3. Open an asset from the list to see its history and put it back.

Tips

  • Drift is based on scans and check-ins, so an asset nobody has scanned recently can look like it is where it belongs.
  • Assigning or changing a location is done on the asset itself.

Related: Location and floor plan pin, Organization and hierarchy labels, Locations

The audit log

The audit log lists custody actions on equipment, newest first. Each row shows the action, the asset, where it happened, who performed it, the condition, any note, and the date.

  • Actions include checkout, check-in, transfer, audit, maintenance, lost, found, disposed and the NFC tag actions (assign, remove, write, reset, unknown scan).
  • License seat assignments and releases are recorded too.
  • Selecting an asset in a row opens that asset's history.
  • Actions taken offline are recorded with the time they happened, once the phone syncs.

Admins only

The audit log appears in the sidebar for owners and admins. Other roles do not see it.

What about IP addresses?

Network details are not shown in the audit log screen. Where the platform keeps an actor IP address for security records, it is stored hashed or truncated and cleared after 90 days. See the Privacy page for the full list.

Tips

  • The page title shows the total number of entries.
  • When someone deletes their account, their past actions stay in the log under the name Deleted user.
  • The log is read-only. Entries cannot be edited or removed from the app.

Related: Filter the audit log, Asset history

Filter the audit log

Use the filter bar to narrow a long log. Filters combine, and they are kept in the page address so you can share a filtered view.

  1. Open Audit log from the sidebar.
  2. Type an asset tag or name in the search box.
  3. Pick an Action and a Person from the menus.
  4. Set From and To dates. The To date must be on or after the From date.
  5. Pick a location, department or floor plan to narrow further.
  6. Select Clear filters to start again.

Tips

  • If you see No entries match these filters, widen the dates or clear a filter.
  • A Date range is backwards message means From is after To. Fix either date.
  • Searching a person's name finds what they did. To see what happened to one asset, open the asset's own history instead.

Related: The audit log, Date range and grouping

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On this page

  • Overview
  • Run a report
  • Date range and grouping
  • Location reports
  • The audit log
  • Filter the audit log
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