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# Using the Event Log

The Event Log provides complete accountability for all activity within King Task Centre. It is administrators' most powerful tool in interrogating the system to see the details of task processing or other system activity. You view the Event Log by selecting Manage > Event Log. The Event Log dialog box has its own menu. The View menu allows you to filter the display as required. Information is displayed for each event in a table under the column headings listed below. The applicable database `TableName.ColumnName` for each item is displayed in brackets after each column heading.
|  | Source (`EventLog.EventSource`) — Displays the event source.
|  | Task ID (`EventLog.TaskID`) — Displays a unique ID for each Task in King Task Centre. This is blank if the event has not been logged within the context of a Task run.
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|  | Task Instance ID (`EventLog.RunEventID`) — Displays unique ID for each Task run instance which allows the user to differentiate between multiple runs of the same Task. This is blank if the event has not been logged within the context of a Task run.

|  | Category (`EventLog.EventCategory`) — Displays the event category of Task, Step, Security, or System as applicable.

|  | Type (`EventLog.EventType`) — This displays Information unless there has been a problem when either Warning or Error is shown against the applicable event(s) that caused the problem.

|  | Description (`EventLog.EventDesc`) — Contains a description of the event.

|  | Time (`EventLog.EventTime`) — Displays the date and time that the event was logged.

|  | ID (`EventLog.LogEventID`) — A unique ID number is generated for each event.

Double-clicking on an event opens the Event Properties dialog box to display details for the event. Previous and Next buttons are provided to display details for the other events listed in the table.

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NOTE:

A Data Dictionary is available which provides users with details of the tables available in the King Task Centre SQL database, providing an "SQL" rather than "Internal" database type is being used, so that the data may be queried and utilised either within a King Task Centre Task or within an external application or report. Any standard query tool may be used to access the data.

An EventLog table is included in the Data Dictionary which displays a list of the columns available for the table, including a description for each column.

You can also filter the event log view using the properties of each entry, or via a date range:

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## About Login Attempt Entries

All login attempts are logged to the Event Log. If using the Windows Authentication method (see Logging In), the following behaviour should be noted:

|  | At the time of writing, when using Windows credentials to log into King Task Centre, the username is not logged to the Event Log for both successful and unsuccessful logins

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