$auditEvent is protected

[r0lodex]

laravel-auditing-doc/audit-custom.md

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$article->auditEvent = 'whateverYouWant';

Since $auditEvent is a protected variable, assigning a value with customAudit would render an empty string.

[simonmaass]

Also when enabling strict mode: https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/eloquent#configuring-eloquent-strictness

Model::shouldBeStrict(! $this->app->isProduction());

It will print an error:

The attribute [auditEvents] either does not exist or was not retrieved for model [App\Models\User].