Auditing Event Type problem

Hi Experts,
We are on BO 4.1 SP2 (Windows) and are using version 4.0 of the Auditing universe (UNX).
I need to create an Audit report that lists the reports our Professional Licence Holders have created in Web Intelligence (By clicking 'New' in Webi). This is part of our attempt to make sure that people who have been given these licences are actually using them to create content for their users!
My problem is that I don't know how to ensure that I am only listing reports that are manually created by the business user. I don't want to list reports that are created by system users or processes, such as the backup files created in a user's temporary storage folder, .../~WebIntelligence/.
I don't how to exclude those automatically generated ones. Can someone explain how to do it? I tried excluding the
/~WebIntelligence/ folder on the OBJECT FOLDER PATH object, but it didn't work. Here is my current query below. Would also appreciate it if someone can explain what is covered in each event type. I couldn't find anything on this.
Thanks,
Andrew

Hi Andrew,
I think you must change the operator in condition with "Object Folder path"
Instead of "Not equal to" you have to use "Not like"
Regards,
Carlos

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    countText.text = "begin: "+beginCount+" move: "+moveCount+" end: "+endCount;

I realised myself what has been happening.
With the listener added to the component being dragged, there's a problem when the drag speed is too fast because the movement of the component being dragged can lag behind the finger. When this happens, the TOUCH_END event may not be seen by the dragged object, because the finger is being raised from the tablet when the dragged object hasn't caught up with the movement of the finger so it doesn't catch the event. Basically the finger moves off the dragged component when the finger goes too fast.
The solution has been to add the TOUCH_MOVE and TOUCH_END listeners to the stage.
Paul

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