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Reporting & History in Global Actions

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About Reporting & History

After you set up your actions, you’ll probably want to check on their status and evaluate past changes that were made to them. The run log and audit log within the Reporting & History let you see the past runs of your actions, the details about those runs, and changes that were made to any action workflow. This section is particularly useful for evaluating why an action may have failed. Reporting & History will contain information about why the action failed or if a change was made, helping identify and fix the issue.
the reporting & history tab in actions

Run Log

The Run log allows you to view additional information about the actions that you’ve triggered. This page can help you monitor your actions, diagnose issues, and get an overview of which actions have been completed.

The run log will contain the following pieces of information about your actions:
the table headers in the run log

  • Action Name: The name of the action.
  • Trigger: The event that begins the action.
  • Tasks: The task(s) that result from the action.
  • What starts the action:This column will tell you whether the action was scheduled or event-based.
  • Triggered Date: The date and time that the action began.
  • Status: The status of the action. Values include Queued, In-Progress, Completed, Timed-Out, and Failed. Click View under the Details column to see the JSON payload for the task.
    Qtip: For tasks that time out, oftentimes this means the Qualtrics server didn’t receive a response for the task. For example, the end point in your web-service task is a custom end-point from your website that is loading slowly. When your server gets back online, the web-service will also load appropriately.
    Qtip: For tasks that fail, click Retry next to the status to re-run it. You should retry failed tasks after fixing the issue that caused them to fail.
  • Details: Click View to see the JSON payload for the task. This window will also show you the execution time of the action.

Searching the Run Log

The run log comes with pre-configured filters allowing you to easily find the actions you’re interested in.

Qtip: Select “All” to revert your filter selection.

the search options at the top of the run log

the filter options at the top of the run log

  1. Use the Status dropdown to filter by the action’s status.
  2. Use the Action dropdown to filter by the action name.
  3. Use the Triggers dropdown to filter by the Event that began the action.
  4. Use the Tasks dropdown to filter by the Task the results from the action.
  5. Use the From and Until boxes to filter by Triggered Date. Click one of the boxes to see a calendar to choose your date.
    the filter for filtering by date. click the two boxes to select a date using the calendar pop-up
  6. Search by a specific action’s Event ID. See the Finding an Event ID subsection below for more information on retrieving the Event ID.

Finding an Event ID

Each time an action runs, the run is assigned a unique Event ID. You can use this ID to find an action’s specific run, or provide to Qualtrics Support if you need help troubleshooting.

  1. Go to Actions.
  2. Select Reporting & History.
    navigating to the run log and clicking details
  3. Click the Details of the action you’re interested in.
  4. Perform a text search for “uniqueID”. On Mac, this is CMD + F and on PC this is CTRL + F. A box should appear in your web browser allowing you to search.
    Finding the UniqueID in the Run Log
  5. Copy the value for your uniqueID.

The uniqueID is the Event ID that can be used to search for specific action runs in your Reporting & History.

Audit Log

The Audit log allows you to view changes that have been made on any action workflow you have access to. This means that you can view when exactly an action was disabled/enabled, when condition changes were made, and who edited your action.

  1. Navigate to your global Actions.
  2. Click on the Reporting & History.
    navigating to the audit log
  3. Click Audit log in the sidebar navigation.
  4. You can now view the changes made to your actions in the table.
Qtip: You can click View details to view the changes made to the JSON payload.

the view details button for an entry in the audit log

Coded Details in the Audit Log

Searching the Audit Log

There are several ways to view additional information within the audit log. In the audit log, you’ll be able to view changes to your triggers and tasks.

using the search fields at the top of the audit log

  1. Search: Type in the Search bar to filter based on keywords.
  2. User name: Type the name of a user and/or select a user from the dropdown results to filter based on a user name.
  3. User action: Type the name of a user and/or select a user from the dropdown results to filter based on a user name. You can filter based on available change events in the audit log.
    clicking the user action dropdown in the audit log
  4. Date range: To filter by date range, choose a start date, and then an end date.
Attention: The filter will not be applied until both dates are selected.

Manually Triggering Scheduled Actions

Rather than waiting for a scheduled action to fire, you can trigger it with the click of a button. In the action editor, you can immediately cause an action to fire during the testing process.

Example: Let’s say that you would like to create an action that is scheduled to trigger every Monday at 6:00 am, but you’re building your action on a Wednesday. You’d like to test your action without waiting for it to trigger the following Monday. You can manually trigger your action immediately in order to test that it’s working the way you want it to.
  1. Navigate to your Actions.
    in the actions tab, clicking create an action
  2. Click Create an action.
  3. Select Started at a specific time to create a scheduled action. For more help setting up your action, see Scheduled Actions.
    choosing started at a specific time
  4. Click Get started.
  5. Turn on your action by toggling the on/off button in the top-right.turning on the scheduled action and then selecting run immediately
  6. Open the options menu in the top-right corner of the action and click Run Immediately to trigger the action.
Qtip: You can verify whether the action fired by checking the output in the Reporting & History tab. Please note that it might take a few minutes for the action to complete execution.