salesforce_security_impl_guide

Monitoring Your Organization's Security
Disabling Field History Tracking
Disabling Field History Tracking
Note: You cannot disable field history tracking for an object if a field on the object is
referenced in Apex.
1. Select the object whose field history tracking you want to disable.
a. For standard objects, from Setup, click Customize.
b. For custom objects, from Setup, click Create > Objects.
2. Deselect the Track Field History checkbox.
If you deselect the checkbox, the History related list is automatically removed from the associated
object’s page layouts.
If you disable field history tracking on a standard object, you can still report on its history data
up to the date and time that you disabled tracking. If you disable field history tracking on a
custom object, then you cannot report on its field history.
EDITIONS
Available in: Contact
Manager, Group,
Professional, Enterprise,
Performance, Unlimited,
Developer, and
Database.com Editions
Standard Objects are not
available in Database.com
USER PERMISSIONS
To set up which fields are
tracked:
• “Customize Application”
Monitoring Setup Changes
The setup audit trail history helps you track the recent setup changes that you and other
administrators have made to your organization. This can be especially useful in organizations with
multiple administrators.
To view the setup audit trail history, from Setup, click Security Controls > View Setup Audit Trail.
To download your organization’s full setup history for the past 180 days, click the Download link.
The setup audit trail history shows you the 20 most recent setup changes made to your organization.
It lists the date of the change, who made it, and what the change was. Additionally, if a delegate
(such as an administrator or customer support representative) makes a setup change on behalf of
an end-user, the Delegate User column shows the delegate’s username. For example, if a user grants
login access to an administrator and the administrator makes a setup change, the administrator’s
username is listed.
The setup audit trail history tracks the following types of changes:
Setup
Changes Tracked
Administration • Company information, default settings such as language or locale, and
company message changes
• Multiple currency setup changes
• User, portal user, role, permission set, and profile changes
• Email address changes for any user
• Deleting email attachments sent as links
• Creating, editing, or deleting email footers
• Record type changes, including creating or renaming record types and
assigning record types to profiles
EDITIONS
Available in: Contact
Manager, Group,
Professional, Enterprise,
Performance, Unlimited,
Developer, and
Database.com Editions
In Database.com, the setup
audit trail history only audits
setup changes for features
that are included in
Database.com.
USER PERMISSIONS
To view audit trail history:
• “View Setup and
Configuration”
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