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# Content Transfer Event Type

Content Transfer events contain information about content transfer events, such as downloads, uploads, and previews. This information includes events performed on files and attachments to records.

For details about event monitoring, see the [Trailhead Event Monitoring module](https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/modules/event_monitoring/units/event_monitoring_intro "HTML (New Window)") or [REST API Developer’s Guide](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.264.0.api_rest.meta/api_rest/using_resources_event_log_files.htm "HTML (New Window)").

## Fields

<table class="featureTable sort_table" summary=""><tbody class="tbody"><tr><td class="entry"><strong class="ph b">Field</strong></td><td class="entry"><strong class="ph b">Details</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">DOCUMENT_ID</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">Id</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">The 15-character ID of the document that’s being shared.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">DOCUMENT_ID_DERIVED</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">Id</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">The 18-character case insensitive ID of the document that’s being shared.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">EVENT_TYPE</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">String</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd"><span class="ph" id="event-type-desc"><a name="event-type-desc"></a>The type of event.</span> The value is always <samp class="codeph nolang">ContentTransfer</samp>.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">FILE_PREVIEW_TYPE</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">String</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">The content type of the file preview.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">FILE_TYPE</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">String</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">The content type of the file version.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">ORGANIZATION_ID</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">Id</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">The 15-character ID of the organization.</dd><dd class="dd">For example: <samp class="codeph nolang">00D000000000123</samp>.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">REQUEST_ID</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">String</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd"><span class="ph" id="request-id-desc"><a name="request-id-desc"></a>The unique ID of a single transaction. A transaction can contain one or more events. Each event in a given transaction has the same <span class="keyword parmname">REQUEST_ID</span>.</span></dd><dd class="dd">For example: <samp class="codeph nolang">3nWgxWbDKWWDIk0FKfF5DV</samp>.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">SIZE_BYTES</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">Number</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">The size of the file transfer, in bytes.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">TIMESTAMP</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">String</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">The access time of Salesforce services in GMT.</dd><dd class="dd">For example: <samp class="codeph nolang">20130715233322.670</samp>.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">TIMESTAMP_DERIVED</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">DateTime</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">The access time of Salesforce services in ISO8601-compatible format (<samp class="codeph nolang">YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.sssZ</samp>).</dd><dd class="dd">For example: <samp class="codeph nolang">2015-07-27T11:32:59.555Z</samp>. Timezone is GMT.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">TRANSACTION_TYPE</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">String</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">The operation that was performed, including operations on files and attachments to records. For example, you can track operations in the Attachments related list on a case.</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Possible Values</dt><dd class="dd"><ul class="ul bulletList"><li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">VersionDownloadAction</samp> and <samp class="codeph nolang">VersionDownloadApi</samp> represent downloads via the user interface and API respectively.</li><li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">VersionRenditionDownload</samp> represents a file preview action.</li><li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">saveVersion</samp> represents a file that’s being uploaded.</li></ul></dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">USER_ID</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">Id</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">The 15-character ID of the user who’s using Salesforce services through the UI or the API.</dd><dd class="dd">For example: <samp class="codeph nolang">00530000009M943</samp></dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">USER_ID_DERIVED</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">Id</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">The 18-character case insensitive ID of the user who’s using Salesforce services through the UI or the API.</dd><dd class="dd">For example: <samp class="codeph nolang">00590000000I1SNIA0</samp>.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">VERSION_ID</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">Id</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">The 15-character ID of the content version.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">VERSION_ID_DERIVED</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">Id</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">The 18-character case insensitive ID of the content version.</dd></dl></td></tr></tbody></table>

#### See Also

- [EventLogFile Supported Event Types](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.object_reference.meta/object_reference/sforce_api_objects_eventlogfile_supportedeventtypes.htm "The EventType field in the EventLogFile object supports these events. Some common fields, such as CPU_TIME and RUN_TIME, can have null or zero values depending on how the events are generated for a given feature. Sometimes, three quotation marks appear around event data containing special characters in the CSV file. The third quotation mark is necessary for tools and applications to parse the field data at the correct field value boundary.")
- [EventLogFile](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.object_reference.meta/object_reference/sforce_api_objects_eventlogfile.htm "Represents event log files generated by Event Monitoring. Use event log file data to analyze usage trends and user behavior in your Salesforce org. This object is available in API version 32.0 and later. The Interval and Sequence fields are available only in API version 37.0 and later.")