Activity: what changed and who changed it
The project's running log: what happened, when, and who did it. Open it from the Project menu at the top right.
Screenshot to come: the Activity feed.
What is in it
Newest first, three kinds of entry:
- An issue was created - with the time and, where it is known, the person.
- Somebody wrote a comment - with the comment itself.
- A field was changed - what changed, from what to what, by whom.
Each entry links to the issue it belongs to, so you can jump straight there.
The automatic "changed Status from Active to Resolved" comments the app writes on an issue are left out of the feed, because the field change is already listed as its own entry. Otherwise every change would appear twice.
Filtering by mentioned user
The dropdown at the top narrows the feed to comments that mention one particular person.
Two things to know about it. It shows only comments - creations and field changes drop out, because neither mentions anybody. And it relies on the app having recognised the mention when the comment was written, which does not always happen: see Comments and mentions.
It is short, and it pages
The feed shows three entries at a time, with page numbers underneath. On an active project that means a lot of clicking to see a morning's work.
This is known and is being worked on. The plan is to make Activity easier to reach and to show considerably more of it at once. When that lands, this page will change.
What it does not tell you
Comment edits. If somebody rewrites a comment, the feed shows the original entry, not the edit. Comment changes are not recorded anywhere yet.
Imports, issue by issue. A BCF import can touch hundreds of issues. Those changes are recorded on each issue's own history, but the import is not summarised as a single entry here.
Anything from before it existed. The feed is built from records that only started being written at certain points in the app's life, so a long-running project may look quieter in its early days than it actually was.
Activity, or the issue's own history?
Two different questions.
Activity answers "what has been happening on this project?" - it spans every issue.
An issue's own history answers "what has happened to this one thing?" - open the issue and look there. That is also what an AI assistant reads when you ask it what changed.
If an imported issue's history looks contradictory, that is expected and explained in Imported issues: dates and authors.