Cohero is purposely designed and architected to capture all events that take place during an asset's lifecycle, in order to reflect a live, non-changeable and mutation-oriented chain of events that form the 'audit trail'. This feature is presented in Cohero as the Activity Log.
This article covers the following aspects:
1. What does the Activity Log show?
a. Live:
The Activity Log automatically reflects new activity on an asset, along with timestamps and actors taking the actions. While the activity log does not refresh itself to show same-time changes, it will reflect them upon refresh, for which a refresh button is available in the Activity Log drawer.
b. Non-Changeable:
Events in the Activity Log can not be altered or tempered with: the chain of events needs to reflect the true events that took place without any manual intervention. That's not to say that people can't correct their own mistakes of course (eg: a wrong attachment that was uploaded), but their corrections will be reflected, along with their original actions.
c. Mutation (from>to)
Typically, events reflect both the 'Before' and 'After' states of changes: they mention the total mutation. This helps readers to understand what things were before the change as well as after.
The Activity Log will separate actions and dates. Some events are clickable (to take you to a specific version or comment). Overtime, we expect to further make this menu easier to digest by introducing filters and other visual treatments to optimize the user interface.
2. New Activity Indicator
The Activity Log reflects the activities that took place after your last visit to the asset. This visual queue (the blue dot) helps to answer the key question: who did what since I was last here? The blue dot sits on the Activity Log menu item - to suggest there's unseen activity in there. When opened, the activities that took place since your last visited have the blue dots next to them. After you've opened the Activity Log, the blue dots will disappear automatically.
3. Restoring removed attachments
The Activity Log shows when attachments were removed. It also offers users with Manage permissions to that asset to restore the attachment to its original attachment category. To restore an attachment (or bookmark), simply click 'Restore'. This event will also be reflected in the activity log.
4. Opening comments
When users leave comments or change requests on the asset, those also are reflected on the Activity Log. From the Activity Log, you can immediately 'open' that comment, by clicking 'Open comment'.