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This chapter describes the Macrotone Consulting Joomla Audit component options.
This section describes the various component options available.
There are a number of options available to configure the component. These are all accessed from the ‘Option’ icon in the top right hand side of most of the Administrator screens. Hovering over the option title will display took tips explaining what the action that the selected option setting performs.
The component currently only has a few options, one of which is whether or not to translate some of the known table fields into readable values. At the present time the contents of the 'state' field which is stored in the database as 'integer' values would be translated into the text equivalent in the natural language of the site. The other fields that would be translated include the 'checked_out', 'created_by' and 'modified_by' table fields which are also stored as the user specific id value, and is translated to display the user and user name as obtained from the Joomla users table.
Another option specify the width of the 'change' field in the changes list display.
Other options may be added in later releases.
Introduced in release 1.0.1 the list control options allow for optional display of fields in the administrator changes display. Some fields may never be populated due to the inability of the database to know the association for the field such as the 'changed_by' field. Other fields may be chosen to be ignored such as the 'component' field, especially if only one specific Joomla component is being monitored.
Other options may be added later if demand is sufficient.
Release 1.0.1 also introduced a log facility. In this release it is used solely to provide some additional debugging information.
Future releases will expand upon the usage of the lo
