Activities vs Audit History

[srirao]

Hi,

I am a rookie in this world and just started learning.

Was wondering if there is a difference between Activities and Audit History. For me both seem to provide the same information or server the same purpose.Am I missing something?

How are they different? Where to use which one?

Appreciate your help.

Thanks

Sri

[Mark Stanger]

There is a difference, although they both come from the same data.   Audit history is the full history of all of the changes to the record...every single field.   Activities (aka the Activity formatter) pull from that same audit history, but it's only the specific fields that you choose to display in the activity formatter (hopefully not every field).   You can right-click next to the activity formatter label and select 'Personalize activities' as an administrator to select which fields history will be shown on the form.   The reason why you don't want all of it displayed in the activity formatter is because it adds way too much irrelevant noise in most cases and also increases the render time of your form because you're querying for a bunch of unnecessary information.

[srirao]

Thank you Mark for the explanation.