# Audit Trails

Audit Trails allows you to keep track of your organization\`s activities in the system. By selecting different criteria or searching by user, you can gain a better understanding of how your organization is using the platform.

From the welcome page, select **Admin**, then **System** from the drop-down menu. This will launch the **System** menu.

Select **Audit Trails**.

This will launch the Audit Trails page as seen in the screenshot below:

### **Advanced Search for a User**

You can search for a user via the "Search by User" field at the top or you can have an advanced search by clicking the ![](https://mifosforge.jira.com/wiki/download/thumbnails/67895352/dropdown.png?version=2\&modificationDate=1554841027044\&cacheVersion=1\&api=v2\&width=30) button at the side of the search bar.

This will activate additional search filters to ease your search;

* Search by user
* Resource ID
* From Date
* To Date
* Checked from&#x20;
* Checked to
* Select status - drop-down menu
* Select Entity - drop-down menu
* Select Action - drop-down menu
* Select checker - drop-down menu

After adding the filters of your choice, click the **Advanced** **Search** button as indicated in the screenshot above. LMS will display records according to the filters selected. Should you wish to reset your filters, select the **Reset** Button just above the Advanced Search button. This will clear all entries in the filter fields.

### **How to view an Audit Entry**

On the Audit Trails page, select the the Audit Entry you would like to view (*it will be highlighted in blue when the cursor is over it*.)

A page detailing the Audit Entry will be displayed as seen in the example below:

### **How to Export CSV**

At the top-right of the report is a blue button labelled **Export CSV**. A CSV (or Comma-separated values) is a type of file that stores tabular data in plain text form. This allows the data to be easily transferred between programs that are not normally compatible.&#x20;

To create a CSV file of your selected data, click on the blue **Export CSV** button. This will download a CSV file:

Open the CSV file with an appropriate program of your choice, for example Microsoft Excel or Libre Office Calc. Only the Audit Entries of that page will be exported.
