Action logs

An action log is an XML document that contains a set of transactions. Each transaction contains one or more actions. Each action has a name and input parameters. Some actions also have output parameters.

For more information, see Transactions and Actions.

You can use the Script Player or the Framework Manager application to play these action logs. You can choose to play back individual transactions or a combination of transactions in an action log.

When you use the Metadata Service, you send requests through the BI Bus API. These requests contain one or more actions in the same format as the actions in an action log. For example, you make changes to a project in a test environment. When it is time to move the project to production, you can play back every action, or series of actions, that you performed in the project in the test environment to create an identical project in the production environment.

In the Framework Manager application, the action log is stored in the project logs folder. The naming convention for the action log is the name of the project with the timestamp appended. For example, <projectname>-<timestamp>-log.xml.

For an example of a Framework Manager action log, see Example - adding a security filter.