Enable Audit settings for a Sharepoint List Programmatically

Sharepoint provides audit property for the objects that can be audited. Its pretty easy to turn on audit feature programmatically on any list/document library or a sitecolleciton by setting the values for the property. In the object model, for a SPList, SPListItem the audit property can be set on specific events so that it doesn’t generate huge data. Code as follows :

SPSite siteCollection = SPContext.Current.Site;

SPWeb site = siteCollection.RootWeb;

SPList docLib = site.Lists("DocLibName");

// Turn on auditing flags.

docLib.Audit.AuditFlags = SPAuditMaskType.View |

                          SPAuditMaskType.ChildDelete;

docLib.Audit.Update();

In the above example only view and delete events get audited, any more events to be audited can be added to audit flag separating Bitwise OR.

Auditing options:

SPAuditMaskType.CheckIn

SPAuditMaskType.CheckOut

SPAuditMaskType.ChildDelete

SPAuditMaskType.Copy

SPAuditMaskType.Delete

SPAuditMaskType.Move

SPAuditMaskType.ProfileChange

SPAuditMaskType.SchemaChange

SPAuditMaskType.Search

SPAuditMaskType.SecurityChange

SPAuditMaskType.Undelete

SPAuditMaskType.Update

SPAuditMaskType.View

SPAuditMaskType.Workflow