Note: The concept of Fields is included in Open-AudIT Community, Professional and Enterprise. However, some features are only available in the Professional and Enterprise versions.

No matter how many tables or fields an auditing solution has out of the box there is always a need for a custom field or two. In Open-AudIT custom fields can take the shape of a simple text box, a listbox with defined entries, or a date field.

1. Define the purpose for the additional fields
2. Determine if every Device Group needs to have this field, or only one specific Group? More information on Groups can be found HERE: Groups
3. What type of information will be stored in the field
4. How will the field be populated?
5. Create the new Field. More information on Fields can be found HERE: Fields
6. Populate the field and test

Reporting

You can include custom Fields in Queries, but not Reports or Summaries. The general process for for creating a custom report is covered HERE: Creating Custom Reports, with details on using custom Fields covered indepth HERE: Create a Query containing Custom Fields