This would help us out a lot. Having only new values would be okay, but if it were possible seeing both old and new would be better. But don't delay having it in the system to get old values as well!!!
We would prefer to see this on a daily basis. We don't need to see any intermediate values in a field - like a member trying multiple times to get a phone number typed in right. Just an indicator that there is a new value in the field at the end of the "day" compared to what there had been at the beginning of the 24 hour cycle (does not need to be exact), and what that value is.
If the only way it could be reasonably implemented would be to extend the processing at the time of the update event to trigger a message to admin, that would be okay too as better-than-nothing.
One tough problem in implementation would be whether to make the change notification machine-readable, like in XML, or human readable, in text, like you refer to in your message, or somehow both. We would prefer to get both, but the xml version would be preferred if there is only one kind of report available.For most WA users however we would understand if they wanted text email notification. In your implementation you might internally generate it in XML and then output that to a generated text message. What we are saying is that we would like to get the xml as an attachment to the mail.
Thanks.
Ken Sloan
Association for Holotropic Breathwork (AHBI)