
Carrying Out Evaluations
Prerequisites
You have at least entered the required evaluation conditions (starting date and transaction code).
Procedure
Choose Start evaluation.
The system starts the evaluation of the table logs, change documents, or long texts using the selection conditions you entered.
Result
The system displays the results on the Audit Trail screen.
Audit Trail: x/y Transactions Evaluated is displayed in the title bar. Here, y stands for the number of transactions that can be evaluated, and x for the number of transactions that were actually evaluated. If the two values are not identical, some of the transactions were not evaluated because you do not have the authorization for them.

For more information on non-evaluated transactions, see
Evaluation conditions.
The results are displayed in two lists:
Either one or both lists are displayed, depending on whether you carried out an evaluation for table logs only, change documents only, or both.
In addition to the general selection conditions such as date, time, and person who made the changes, each list also contains more detailed information about the change document object or table log (for example, the value before and after the change is displayed for each changed data record).
Display changed contents of individual table field
If you have deleted or inserted data in several fields of a table row, these changes only appear as a single entry in the evaluation of table logs. To list the details of the changes in the individual table fields:
In a further list, the system displays the changes to the individual files of the selected table row.
Display field contents in full
Sometimes, the content of a table field is too long and cannot be displayed in its entirety. In this case, the
icon is displayed at the start of the table row.
Click on
or double click on a field in the row.
The system then displays a dialog box containing the full contents of all table fields in the selected table row.
Display long texts
The text prior to the change is displayed on the left-hand side of the screen, the text after the change on the right-hand side of the screen.