Recovering a deleted Record, Form, Folder or Field

This article describes how to retrieve deleted data from the Database Audit Log.

A Database Audit Log provides a list of past events within a Database. You might want to have access to these events in order to review which users updated a resource, or revert deletion.

You can restore the following resources from the Audit log:

• Records
• Forms
• Folders
• Fields
• Records in a Subform that were deleted following a change in relevance rules that apply to that subform.

How to recover a deleted Form or Folder

To recover a deleted Form or Folder, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the Database List page.
2. Select the Database where the Form or Folder was deleted from.
3. Click "Database settings."

4. Click "Audit log" to view the Database Audit Log.

5. View and filter the Database Audit Log to find the deleted Form or Folder, or select the event log directly from the list.
6. Click "Revert" under the deleted Form or Folder name.

The resource is recovered and marked with the “Reverted” label.

How to recover a deleted Field

To recover a deleted Field, follow these steps:

1. Find the event log where the schema of the relevant Form was updated.
2. In the right hand details panel, you will see the field that was deleted. Click “Recover latest field version”.

3. The Field is re-added to the Form with a timestamp in the label reflecting when the Field was recovered. Any values previously added to that Field are reverted as well.

4. The event log reflecting the deletion of the Field in the Audit Log is updated to indicate that the Field has been recovered. Additionally, a new Audit Log event is logged to indicate the addition of the recovered Field.