WHAT IS THE MECHANISM FOR AUDITING PORTAL USER ACTIVITY

Question

Is there any default mechanism for auditing a portal users access to
tables. At the DB level, we are seeing the portal_public user but we want to see the portal user instead; e.g. we need to report on activity such as: portal user johndoe deleted a row of data from a table.
johndoe is only a portal user not a database user.
We are trying to keep from writing additional custom code to auditing. We are
using wwctx_api.get_user_id in other parts of the application and we would like
to avoid writing a custom auditing module.

Answer 1

William,
I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but...
When you create (or edit) a component in Portal 10g, there is a Log Activity check box. If you check this box, then go to Manage the component (in the Portal Navigator), there are Develop, Manage and Access tabs. The Manage tab has a Monitor icon, which has the information you may be looking for. This does not seem to be available directly for database tables. However, I created a Calendar, based on a database table I created to keep track of the Calendar Events. I also created a form to allow users to add Calendar Event entries. I turned logging on for both components. The Monitoring allows me to see when each user has accessed the Calendar, and who and when they insert, update or delete entries from the Calendar table.
-Ricky Burke