Get item history
Audit trail of one item: submission, field changes, publishing, approval and archiving.
MCP tool dext_read → get_item_history
read
Returns the History tab of an item. Each entry has the time, the user or source and what changed. Use it to see who published an item before you unarchive it.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| item_id string required | string | Item ID from list_items. |
tools/call
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "dext_read",
"arguments": {
"operation": "get_item_history",
"arguments": {
"item_id": "item_8c41d2"
}
}
}
}Example response
{
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "{ ... same JSON as structuredContent ... }"
}
],
"structuredContent": {
"history": [
{
"at": "2026-10-09T08:14:00Z",
"by": "Email upload",
"action": "submitted"
},
{
"at": "2026-10-09T08:16:00Z",
"by": "Dext",
"action": "extracted"
},
{
"at": "2026-10-09T09:02:00Z",
"by": "Dana Reyes",
"action": "changed total_amount from 74.5 to 84.5"
}
]
},
"isError": false
}