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Blame Log
Every change to a record (who made it, when, and exactly what changed), with the power to restore any previous version.
You'll find this section on a case, a lead, a contact, a task, a campaign, an invoice, a transaction and a document.
Outlaw Practice never overwrites your data. Every save creates a new version of the record, and the old version stays. Forever. The Blame Log (more generously called the audit log) is how you see and use that history: a chronological list of every change to a record since it was created. Most practice software keeps no usable history at all; this is the safety net under everything else in the app.
Open it with the Blame Log button near the bottom of a record.
What Each Entry Shows
Each entry is one saved change, oldest first: whether it created or edited the record, who made the change, when (date and time), and what changed: field by field, in plain language, with the value before and the value after. “Hourly rate: $250 → $300, changed by Jane Paralegal, June 9 at 2:14 PM” answers the question the log is named for.
Putting History to Work
- Restore a previous version. Every older entry has a restore action: the record returns to exactly that state. Wrong edit? Overwrote something important? Go back to before it happened.
- Undo the latest change. The newest entry can be removed, permanently backing out the most recent saved change.
- Rescue pieces, not the whole. The before-and-after values are right there to read. When you only need one field back, copy it from the log into the current entry instead of restoring outright.
- See your own unsaved edits. If you have changes in progress, the log shows them as a pending entry, with a one-click way to discard them and fall back to the last saved version.
When Two People Collide
If a colleague edited the same record you did (say, while one of you was working offline), the most recent save is what everyone sees, but the other change is not gone. The Blame Log shows exactly what it was, and you can restore it or copy what you need into the current entry.
Deleted Is Just Another Change
Deleting a record is itself a recorded change, which is why the Trash page can bring deleted records back. Nothing in Outlaw is ever more than one restore away.
The Client File
The Blame Log is the firm’s internal machinery: an audit trail of your team’s work. It is never part of the client’s case file.