Despite filter “type=cm:content”, Alfresco audit writes about folders too

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nicolasraoul
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Despite filter “type=cm:content”, Alfresco audit writes about folders too

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I want Alfresco to audit document changes but not folder changes. For instance, if a folder containing a document is deleted, only the document deletion should show up in audit.
 
In Alfresco 5.1.0 I defined a single audit application `myapp` with this configuration:

    audit.tagging.enabled=false
    audit.myapp.enabled=true
    audit.myapp.sub-actions.enabled=false
    audit.filter.myapp.default.enabled=true
    audit.filter.myapp.transaction.type=cm:content
    audit.filter.myapp.transaction.path=/app:company_home/app:shared/.*
    audit.filter.myapp.transaction.action=CREATE|READ|UPDATE CONTENT|CHECK IN|DELETE|COPY|MOVE|DOWNLOAD|addNodeAspect|deleteNodeAspect

If my understanding is correct, `type=cm:content` limits audit events to only those about Alfresco **documents**? If I wanted events about folders too I would write `cm:folder;cm:content` there.

Despite this code, when querying `http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/audit/query/myapp` I still get audit events whenever a **folder** is created or deleted.  
What am I doing wrong?

Audit after folder creation:

      {
         "id":945,
         "application":"myapp",
         "user":"user1",
         "time":"2017-03-16T13:20:59.480+09:00",
         "values":
         {
                     "\/bmyapp\/transaction\/action":"CREATE"
                     ,"\/myapp\/transaction\/path":"\/app:company_home\/app:shared\/cm:folder1"
         }
      },

Audit after folder deletion:

      {
         "id":947,
         "application":"myapp",
         "user":"user1",
         "time":"2017-03-16T13:24:51.098+09:00",
         "values":
         {
                     "\/myapp\/transaction\/action":"DELETE"
                     ,"\/myapp\/transaction\/path":"\/app:company_home\/app:shared\/cm:folder1"
         }
      },

I am currently reading the Alfresco source code, but I can't find the method where type=cm:content gets parsed/used, if you know where it is the info would be very welcome :-)

Thanks a lot!

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afaust
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Re: Despite filter “type=cm:content”, Alfresco audit writes about folders too

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The most important thing you have to understand about audit filters is that they work only on "inbound" data. They are not meant to work on data mapped into a specific audit application. By default Alfresco has two major audit producers that can be filtered - "alfresco-access" and "alfresco-api". If you map e.g. "alfresco-access" into your own audit application, you'd have to filter "alfresco-access" and not "myapp". This will also filter data from "alfresco-access" that may be mapped into another audit application "myapp2", but that is one of the long standing drawbacks of audit filtering (described among other issues in MNT-10070 which was closed as "fixed" despite not fixing anything in the actual description).

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afaust
Master

Re: Despite filter “type=cm:content”, Alfresco audit writes about folders too

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The most important thing you have to understand about audit filters is that they work only on "inbound" data. They are not meant to work on data mapped into a specific audit application. By default Alfresco has two major audit producers that can be filtered - "alfresco-access" and "alfresco-api". If you map e.g. "alfresco-access" into your own audit application, you'd have to filter "alfresco-access" and not "myapp". This will also filter data from "alfresco-access" that may be mapped into another audit application "myapp2", but that is one of the long standing drawbacks of audit filtering (described among other issues in MNT-10070 which was closed as "fixed" despite not fixing anything in the actual description).