What the Admin can see in a shared chat
In a shared conversation the person who owns it can open the activity log and see who joined, who viewed, who sent what, who commented, what changed, and when. What it records, and what it does not.
In a shared conversation the person who owns it is labelled Admin, and the others are Editors or Viewers. The Admin can open People and read the Activity page: the log of what has happened in that chat.
What the log records
One line per event, newest first, each naming the person and the time:
| Event | How it reads |
|---|---|
| Someone joins | joined the chat |
| Someone opens it | viewed the chat |
| A message is sent | sent "the first words of it" |
| A comment is left | commented: "the first words of it" |
| A note to the people | told the people: "the first words of it" |
| An announcement is posted | announced: "the first words of it" |
| The tracker changes | changed the tracker: what changed |
| Someone is invited | invited a name |
| A role changes | is now Editor, or is now Viewer |
| Someone leaves | left the chat |
| Someone is removed | removed a name |
The quoted part is a short specific, the opening words rather than the whole message. The log is a record of what happened, not a second copy of the conversation.
What it does not record
- Highlights. Marking a passage is not an entry of its own. If a highlight carries a note, that note appears as a comment.
- Tags and labels. Nothing here records them.
- Edits to a message. Editing your own message is not an entry. Changes to the tracker are, because the tracker is the chat's shared object rather than one person's message.
Who can see it
The Admin only. Editors and viewers work in the conversation without seeing the log, and the Activity page is not shown to them at all.
Everyone in a shared chat can already see who said what as they read it: messages carry their author, comments are attributed, and highlights carry their colour and their author. The log adds the events that are not visible in the transcript: who opened the chat and when, who changed a role, who was removed, and what changed in the tracker.
Related to a shared chat
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- Comments, mentions, and asking Dropstone in a thread
- Highlight a passage, quote it, and ask about it
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