Overview
The Activity Stream lets everyone collaborating in a model keep track of all changes and comments performed by all team members, wherever they are, in a rich and meaningful way. A time line lists all activities chronologically. Each activity contains an icon categorizing the story types and a link to navigate easily to the object mentioned.
Before you start
The Activity Stream is available in Bizagi Modeler (desktop application) and in the Process Library for customers with a plan or in Trial mode, for both Editors and Contributors.
Using the Activity Stream
To open the Activity Stream pane, click the bell icon (
) at the bottom right corner of Bizagi Modeler or in the toolbar in the Process Library (
).
When the Activity Stream opens, the activity list with past events appears. Every new activity appears as soon as it arrives. If the pane is closed and a notification is received, the icon is highlighted with orange (
) or (
).
In the Activity Stream, the following actions create a notification:
•Diagram check-in, check-out
•Diagram created, modified or deleted
•Folder created, renamed or deleted
•Diagram(s) and/or folder(s) moved to another folder
•Comments created on models, diagrams or elements, and any replies
•Model properties changed
When a user is in the root of a model or in a folder, all activity notifications will be shown in the Activity Stream.
When a user is in a specific diagram, the Activity Stream show activities related to it.
An activity notification contains the following information:
Activity type |
Example |
Description |
|---|---|---|
Action |
|
1.Activity Icon: Indicates the type of activity and where the activity was performed. 2.Label: This label uses the following structure: Name of the user who performed the activity + Action + link to where the action was performed. Possible actions are: check-in, check out, add, delete, modify, and rename. 3.Time: Time when was the action was performed. |
Comment |
|
1.Activity Icon: white icon indicates comments. 2.Label: Uses the following structure: Name of the user who made the comment + added a comment to + link to where the comment was performed. 3.Time: When the comment was made. 4.Comment: Comment made by the user. 5.Reply: Option to reply. |
Reply |
|
1.Activity Icon: Blue icon indicates replies. 2.Label: Uses the following structure: Name of the user who made the comment + replied to the thread + first characters of the previous comment + link to where the comment was made. 3.Show/Hide comment: Shows or hides replied comment. 4.Comment: Comment to which this reply is addressed. 5.Time: When the reply was made. 6.Comment: Reply made by the user. 7.Reply: Option to reply to this thread. |
Restrictions
The following objects do not be generate notifications in the Activity Stream:
•Extended Attributes (add, edit or delete properties)
•Custom Artifacts (add custom artifacts to the model)
•Resources (add, edit or delete resources)
•Files (add, rename or delete cloud model attachments)
Additionally, any activity related to specific elements such us comments on tasks won't have a direct link to the element. Instead there will be a link to diagram where the element is contained.