Environment: MOSS2013SP1, Record Library with Versioning and "content approval" enabled. Full auditing of the site collection.

Note: "content approval" != "approval workflow" 

Issue: How to audit document approval actions? 
I have created a custom audit log report with the following settings: 
- "Edit Items"
- "Workflow events"
- "Custom events"

and yet no content approval action from e.g. "draft" to "approved" shows up in the audit report.

Q: Where is this piece of information stored and how can i access the approval history of a document or list item?

 

• Edited by armin o Tuesday, June 23, 2015 10:44 AM

Try to use Audit logs 

https://support.office.com/en-in/article/View-audit-log-reports-4293e8d5-4e7d-4201-b8ac-c8e63a100131

I did use audit logs, as described in my first post. 

In fact i have enabled ALL available options in a custom report and content approval actions are not mentioned. 

So, how can i determine the approver and approval time and history of a document?

 

• Edited by armin o Wednesday, June 24, 2015 8:04 AM

Hi Armin,

For this issue, I recommend to create an ItemUpdated event receiver to monitor the update for Approval Status as a workaround.

https://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-tools/managing-itemupdating-and-itemupdated-events-firing-twice-in-a-sharepoint-item-event-receiver/

 Thanks,

Victoria