Activities & Timeline
Nobody writes this up. What changed and who changed it is read back out of the tables it already sits in, and an edit keeps both readings, what the field said before and what it says now, so the entry still means something six months later.
One record's day, assembled from the tables it already sits in
5 of 6 merged- changelogentity_change_logs · created_at
- emailemails · sent_at
- notenotes · updated_at
- meetingmeeting_activities · start_time
- commentcomments · updated_at
- tasktasks · due_date
Product figures from the platform’s own defaults - not customer averages
How it works.
Composed, never typed
The record being created, fields being edited, two separate activity tables, notes, comments, mail and the deals it was attached to are read from where they already sit and interleaved by when they happened.
What it said, what it says, and who
An edit stores the field's written label, what it said before, what it says now, the person and the moment. That is why an entry reads as a sentence instead of a diff nobody can interpret six months later.
A rename does not rewrite last quarter
A stage or source change is written with the names of the two stages, not their internal identifiers. Rename the stage afterward and the entry from last quarter still reads exactly as it did on the day.
Nothing quietly disappears
A deleted note or comment leaves its entry standing, and a note reopened more than a minute after it was written leaves an edited entry beside the original, so the history does not silently rewrite itself.
Two moments in every record.
Every record passes through the same seven. Activities & Timeline is the lit ones, and everything either side of it is a different page in this category.
- 01Capture
how it arrives, and from where
- 02Shape
the fields and stages it carries
- 03Find
getting back to the right ones
- 04Work
what happens against it day to day
- 05Advance
moving it toward a decision
- 06Protect
who may see it, and staying clean
- 07Report
what the floor is judged on
The specifics.
8 facts- Merges
- Creation, field edits, two activity tables, notes, comments, deal links and mail
- Each edit
- Field label, previous value, new value, the person and the timestamp
- Labels
- Seventy-three fields carry written labels; anything else falls back to its name
- Custom fields
- Recorded one at a time, labeled from the field definition rather than as a blob
- Rendering
- Yes and no for booleans. Stage and source read as names; other references stay identifiers
- Not the phone
- Calls, voicemails and texts are the touchpoint history, on their own line
- Views are remembered
- Opening a lead stamps who and when against it, for a recently-viewed list rather than as an audit trail
- Paging
- Twenty-five entries at a time, a hundred as the ceiling
What else writes to this record.
A record is worked by more than one part of the system at once. These are the ones that put something on it, or read it back.
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