Hello community!
I wanted to resurface this thread as I have been thinking a lot about the concept of a simple “Activity Stream” which is a frequent feature of a lot of work mgmt apps, one I find very useful if it’s executed well.
Esteemed founding member @Shafqat_Ullah, who I think sadly has moved on from this forum, described this as well as I could hope for at the top of this thread:
One reason I was looking around here in the community about what we have so far on this subject is a lot of good action of late around communication and using Fibery for tracking history of entities. We have the excellent release of [DONE] Index comments in search which is a game-changer for using Fibery as a team’s repository of documentation / second brain. Now you can search around for anything you wrote anywhere in Fibery, not just rich text boxes. Also, of late @mdubakov has spoken a lot about the plans to have Fibery become a communication hub for teams, and eliminate the need for Slack. My team already does this and communicating exclusively in Fibery is working well! And, there was also a post Michael updated lately about threaded comments which gives me hope that more is coming soon for improved communication in Fibery.
So back to the point of the “Activity Stream,” this would simply show in one area, perhaps on the right side of the entity view or another well-thought out place, all the activity that has occurred in an entity. I think the biggest thing here that could bring this to fruition would be to incorporate the existing entity history into a UI where it would be visible at a glance. Right now we effectively had the “Activity Stream” available by clicking the “reverse clock” logo. However there are some issues with this:
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it is not intuitive to do that when looking at an entity. The intuitive reaction of the users in my team is to just go to the bottom of an entity and read the comments. I have tried to train them on the “backwards clock” button to see all activity, but they never remember to do this
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References are not included in full, just the fact that the entity was referenced. So if I want to update an entity by mentioning it in another entity, the “mentioned” entity won’t pick up that reference in full in this “backwards clock” history area. Only in the actual “references” area.
I think the Fibery team has an idea about this based on the comment here:
Bottom line - I think something akin to a traditional “Activity Stream” as described in this post would be super. I don’t think we quite have a refined version of this yet in Fibery, although all the pieces are for sure already in place to make it happen!
Thanks.