What happens when I reset my activity log?

Will all my previous customers and resent sales dissapear when I reset my activity log? How do I back-up this information if so?

They activity log is your admin_activity_log table ... this records what happens in the Admin for reference etc.

When it gets 50,000 records or is 60 days old, a warning will remind you to clean it up ...

As it can get large ... it is a good idea to do so ...

So will all my customers information will still be stored under the customer drop down menu?

The only table touched is the admin_activation_log

It is not used by anything in Zen Cart other than a way to log activity in the Admin ...

Emptying it has no effect on any of your data other than you are eliminating admin tracking which is only there incase of a problem where you want to see what was being done at a given time or date and by whom ...

Cool thanks a bunch! I just didn't want lose any info for tax purposes and stuff.

When you click that reset button just 5 lines of code are executed.

1. $db->Execute("delete from " . TABLE_ADMIN_ACTIVITY_LOG); These delete all entries from the activity log table

2. **$db->Execute("optimize table " . TABLE_ADMIN_ACTIVITY_LOG); **This compresses that table down to reclaim the space it occupied

3. **$messageStack->add_session(SUCCESS_CLEAN_ADMIN_ACTIVITY_LOG, 'success'); **This logs that you did it

4. **unset($_SESSION['reset_admin_activity_log']); **This clears a session variable needed to warn you it needed doing

5. zen_redirect(zen_href_link(FILENAME_STORE_MANAGER)); This refreshes the store_manager page

I hope that make sense and yet you are advice to do a BACKUP of your databases before you do the reseting!!! :smartass: