Improve logging of object creation

[Dennis Gray]

We have hundreds of users who are allowed to create export mappings. This results in a lot of clutter and we discovered there is no way to identify who created the mapping.

I posted this originally here: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,25164.0.html

Lobo responded that improving this is not currently planned so I am suggesting that logging the creation of objects be improved in future releases.

[Donald Lobo]

Any chance DA can provide developer resources (or sponsor a developer) to address this issue since it will help the org a whole lot?

If i had to guess, this is a 10 hour issue including writing docs and unit tests

lobo

[Dennis Gray]

I can write a spec. What other objects need the feature? 

[Donald Lobo]

Might want to check the schema and screens and see where else this is useful specifically for DA (if they are doing the development)

The couple of other objects i can think of include custom groups, profiles, contribution pages, event registrations. Some of them might already have a created_id/created_date etc

In general there is a bigger problem finding folks to implement specs. There are a fair number of un-implemented specs on the wiki

lobo

[Dennis Gray]

We are currently upgrading from 1.9 to 4.x and, as usual, have a limited budget and a limited amount of time to do this. We do have a volunteer in Belgium with PHP skills and he might be able to work on this after the upgrade. It is not a task we will be asking our paid resource to do.

Is there a template for the spec somewhere?