Where: Settings - Behavior - Logging
FotoWeb can log all activity that takes place on the site. These logs can be used to extract statistics of different sorts and/or monitor other activities.
First off, Write to database needs to be ticked to store activity logs in the database. If you wish to include metadata from the files in the database records, you also need to enable Write Metadata to database. You choose which metadata fields you want to include by ticking them in the Metadata Fields to Include area in the lower right part of the page, as seen in the above screenshot.
If you would like FotoWeb to output text logs in addition to the database ones, you can enable Write site text log and/or Write user text log. The site text log is written to the <SITE_NAME>\logs folder and contains all site activity by all users. The user text log is written to <SITE_NAME>\users\<USER_NAME>\logs folder and contains only that user's site activity. These logs are written in the form as defined in the Log Format settings below.
The text log files contain the same information as the database, but we still recommend using the Reports tool to get detailed activity logs from the system directly from the database. This will allow you to generate custom queries that can output precisely the information you are after, and the reports can be scheduled to run exactly when you prefer. Learn more about using the Reports module here.
To log history events, i.e. information about how the file has been processed in the FotoWare system, in the file's XMP metadata you can switch on Write history in metadata.
Define the format of the text logs. Each log entry is written on a separate line. The separation of log elements can be comma separated, quoted and comma separated, tab separated or quoted and tab separated.
Define the rotation interval for the logs. Upon each rotation interval, a new log file created. The old log files are not deleted, so you should manually delete or move old log files to prevent the disk from being filled up.
Define the activity events to be included in the logs.
Define the metadata fields to be included in the logs.
Very important:
The Source, Byline and Object Name fields are used in the standard reports in the Reports module. Hence, logging of these fields is enabled by default. While it is technically possible to disable logging of these fields, we strongly advise against it since doing so will render the standard reports useless. For this reason, you should never switch off the Write IPTC to database option unless you have very specific reasons for doing so.