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# Knowledge Article View Event Type

Knowledge Article View events contain user activity with your knowledge base.

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">ARTICLE_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 article.</dd><dd class="dd">For example: <samp class="codeph nolang">00Dxx0000001gEb</samp>.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">ARTICLE_STATUS</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">Character</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">Possible values are:<ul class="ul bulletList"><li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">D</samp>—Draft</li><li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">O</samp>—Online</li><li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">A</samp>—Archived</li></ul></dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">ARTICLE_VERSION</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">Article version number.</dd><dd class="dd">For example: <samp class="codeph nolang">2</samp>.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">ARTICLE_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 article version.</dd><dd class="dd">For example: <samp class="codeph nolang">ka0R00000005rt6</samp>.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">CONTEXT</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">Context of the request.</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">Possible values are:<ul class="ul bulletList"><li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">Apex</samp></li><li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">API</samp></li><li class="li">empty string</li></ul></dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">ENTITY</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">Entity requested.</dd><dd class="dd">For example: <samp class="codeph nolang">Knowledge__kav</samp>.</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">KnowledgeArticleView</samp>.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">LANGUAGE</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">iso-code of the language.</dd><dd class="dd">For example: <samp class="codeph nolang">en_US</samp>/</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Example</dt><dd class="dd"></dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">LARGE_LANGUAGE_MODEL</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 name of the large language model (LLM) that generated the knowledge article version.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">LAST_VERSION</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">Boolean</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd"><samp class="codeph nolang">True</samp> if it is the last version.</dd><dd class="dd">Possible values are:<ul class="ul bulletList"><li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">True</samp></li><li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">False</samp></li></ul></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">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>.</dd><dd class="dd">For example: <samp class="codeph nolang">3nWgxWbDKWWDIk0FKfF5DV</samp>.</dd></dl></td></tr><tr><td class="entry"><span class="keyword parmname">SESSION_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">Session ID of the request.</dd><dd class="dd">For example: <samp class="codeph nolang">gV7pCSW2vGaaJNFi3GSpuPIjNbKVbSxRvx34LJsIvuc=</samp>.</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Example</dt><dd class="dd"></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>. The timezone is GMT.</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">USER_TYPE</span></td><td class="entry"><dl class="dl detailList"><dt class="dt dlterm">Type</dt><dd class="dd">Character</dd><dt class="dt dlterm">Description</dt><dd class="dd">User type of the request.</dd><dd class="dd">Possible values are:<ul class="ul bulletList"><li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">A</samp>—App</li><li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">C</samp>—Customer Portal</li><li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">P</samp>—Partner Portal</li><li class="li"><samp class="codeph nolang">G</samp>—guest</li><li class="li"></li></ul></dd></dl></td></tr></tbody></table>