# How to see who last saved a project?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-see-who-last-saved-a-project/55662>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [February 2, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-see-who-last-saved-a-project/55662 "2022-02-02T15:17:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![iceberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@iceberg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/iceberg)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-see-who-last-saved-a-project/55662/1 "2022-02-02T15:17:47Z")

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Is there a way to see who last saved a project? I can’t find this in the literature anywhere.

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**Author:** ![zacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ea5d25/32.png) [@zacht](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zacht)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-see-who-last-saved-a-project/55662/2 "2022-02-02T15:24:48Z")

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I don’t know if you can see in the file system, but you can enable auditing on the gateway, which will show every project change and the ‘actor’ who caused it.

[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Audit+Log+and+Profiles](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Audit+Log+and+Profiles)

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**Author:** ![mdia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mdia/32/87599_2.png) [@mdia](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mdia)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-see-who-last-saved-a-project/55662/3 "2022-02-02T15:27:09Z")

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I think you must have auditing enabled in your project properties. If that is enabled, all audit events will be logged into an audit event database table that is linked to your audit profile that you created on the gateway. You can search for a “project save” action by running a simple SQL query

```auto
SELECT TOP (100) *
  FROM [YourDatabaseTable]
  where ACTION = 'project save'
  AND ACTION_TARGET = 'YourProjectName'
  ORDER BY EVENT_TIMESTAMP DESC

```

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**Author:** ![zacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ea5d25/32.png) [@zacht](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zacht)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-see-who-last-saved-a-project/55662/4 "2022-02-02T15:30:30Z")

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> [@mdia](#):
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> I think you must have auditing enabled in your project properties.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/2/e27c9f42750c7cad5d93994eb757583032932cc4.png)

According to the user manual, a Gateway Audit Profile will catch project changes (presumably independent of auditing enabled at the project level).

[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Auditing+Actions+Reference](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Auditing+Actions+Reference)

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**Author:** ![mdia](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mdia/32/87599_2.png) [@mdia](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mdia)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-see-who-last-saved-a-project/55662/5 "2022-02-02T15:34:03Z")

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I’m pretty sure auditing has to be enabled.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/d/2daca1198a7734e4fbd7364459dff1856af14c94.png)

[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Audit+Log+and+Profiles](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/Audit+Log+and+Profiles)

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-see-who-last-saved-a-project/55662/6 "2022-02-02T16:30:28Z")

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> [@zacht](#):
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> According to the user manual, a Gateway Audit Profile will catch project changes (presumably independent of auditing enabled at the project level).

The distinction is a gateway level audit profile captures extremely high level details (a project changed), _not_ any individual details about the changes.  
A project audit profile _will_ capture details of the changes.

Also, in 8.1.14 the Project Update Script has some additional implicit arguments which list the resources and actor who made changes to them:  
[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Gateway+Event+Scripts#GatewayEventScripts-UpdateScript](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Gateway+Event+Scripts#GatewayEventScripts-UpdateScript)