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  1. Open your browser and enter the URL:

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    https://accounting.example.com/accounting/report
    1. By default the previous month data is returned
    2. If you need another month's data in the past add month specifier <yyyy-MM> in the URL e.g. 

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      https://accounting.example.com/accounting/report/2019-01


  2. Your are redirected to SSO for authentication - enter the credentials of the user that has access to the Accounting application in SSO and sign-in

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  3. Depending on your environment and browser either the CSV file is automatically downloaded or you get a dialog and you can save it - save the file

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  4. The downloaded file will have a prefix of the value set in Accounting Service additional configuration property: ubisecure.ids.accounting.csv.accounting-filename. If you have not customised it, please prefix the file with e.g. "MyCompany-B2B-2019-03.csv"
  5. If you want to take another report enter the respective URL
  6. Accounting Service session length is by default configured to be 10 minutes before new authentication is requested. There is no logout action but when you are finished you can close the browser or remove cookies to clear you session before the 10 minutes timeout

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NOTE: since SSO v. 8.8. with Accounting Service 1.2.x the event table column structure has been optimised for better performance. Therefore this endpoint shall return "Unknown Authentication Method Type" instead of the actual authentication method type for all events created before the upgrade. See  Accounting Service database about the change.

The following imaginary example shows partial contents of the CSV file (date requested 2019-03-15):

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Tip

Since SSO v. 8.8. with Accounting Service 1.2.x there is a new endpoint to request past events which is more flexible and is able to produce also JSON instead of CSV. See Accounting Service API section Event details API.

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