Logs; New Log Category field added

A new Category field has been added to Logs, allowing Logs to be categorised independently of the existing Severity field. This was requested to give users an additional axis for filtering and reporting on large Log collections.

The Category field is a free-text field, with values driven by a per-Log-type Information List. The field is hidden if the Information List does not exist or has no items, unless the Log already has a Category value (so existing data is never silently dropped).

The Category field appears between the Date and Severity fields on the General page of all Log forms.

The following Log forms have been updated:

• Account Log
• Account Application Log
• Client Log
• User Log
• Security Statement Log
• Security Statement Item Log

The following HTML Widget has been updated:

• HtmlWidget_LogEdit
• Version: 1.11 (26/05/2026)

The following Log Details reports have been updated to show the Category row between the Date and Severity rows, only when the Log has a Category value:

• Account Log Details
• Account Application Log Details
• Client Log Details
• User Log Details
• Security Statement Log Details
• Security Statement Item Log Details

The Logs Summary standard block has been updated to display the Category below the Date row, only when the Log has a Category value. This affects Summary Pages that use the Log_Summary or Log_SummarySimple Standard Blocks.

The following system Information Lists have been added:

• AccountLogCategories
• AccountAppLogCategories
• ClientLogCategories
• UserLogCategories
• SecStmtLogCategories
• SecItemLogCategories

In the Business Layer, the LogCategory property (50 characters) has been added to all Log objects:

• finAccountLog
• finAccountAppLog
• finClientLog
• finUserLog
• finSecurityStmtLog
• finSecurityStmtItemLog
• finLogRO (read-only)
• I_finLog (interface)

A new method, finLogs.HasLogCategory, returns True if any Log in the collection has a non-empty Category value. This can be used by Summary Page Scripts and custom Reports to conditionally render Category columns.

NOTE: This change does not require a database upgrade. The underlying LogCategory column was added to the Log tables in version 4.01.00.04.