Viewing the summary of user activity on a file or folder

To view the summary of user activity on a file or folder

  1. From the Workspace tab, navigate to the Data Sources list-view.
  2. Expand a filer or Web application to display a list of configured shares or site collection.
  3. Expand a share or site collection to view the folders, sites, document libraries, or picture libraries present within the share or the site collection.
  4. Click a folder. The Summary panel populates to display additional details.
  5. Click Expand Profile on the Summary panel to display the underlying folder-centric views.
  6. By default, the Overview tab displays the a summary of the selected data repository.
  7. Click User Activity.
  8. By default, the Summary sub-tab displays the following attributes of the folder for the last six months from the current date:
    • The user who created the file or folder.

    • The user who last modified the file or folder

    • The inferred data owner.

    • The last access date.

    • The total access count of the inferred data owner, including the number of read events and write events.

    • A graphical view of the total access count for the top five users of the selected file or folder.

      Click on a section of the pie-chart to view the detailed audit logs for a user.

    • A tabular view of the access pattern of the top five users of the selected file or folder.

  9. To view the summary of the user activity for the folder for a specific time period, enter the start and end dates in the To and From fields, and click Go.

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