HighQ Basics

Recent activity (Activity Stream)

The Recent activity section within the Dashboard shows the recent activity across every site the user can access.
Users can view the Activity Stream via
All
,
Posts
 and
Activity
 and they also can filter by Sites, Content Type and People.

Filtering activity

Activity can be filtered by
Sites
,
Content type
 and
People
 when using the
Filter
 option:
Filter by site
Activity can be filtered by any site the user has access to, or by all the sites listed as favourites. Most recently viewed sites will be displayed in the drop-down list, or users can use the search field to search for another site.
Filter content type
Via the
Content
 menu, activity can be filtered by the type of content, such as one of the module types (Files, WIki, etc.), but is limited to group messages or comments on any type of content.
Filter by people
Activity can be filtered by users.
To remove a filter, click the red
x
 next to the filter:

Actions within the activity stream

Commenting
To comment on an item within the Activity stream, select
Comment
 and a comment box will appear. Type in your comment and click post to post it. Users can mention people by typing an
@
 symbol and entering the user they wish to tag's name (this uses the autocomplete feature, so starting to type a user name will display all relevant users) and can also add a tag, by typing the
#
 symbol and entering their tag. If any comments already exist, the
Comment
 button is preceded by the number of comments.
Type in your comment and select
Post
. Your comment will immediately appear in the Recent Activity pane, under the original listing:
If multiple comments have been added to an activity, the two most recent comments will be visible, with the opportunity to view all of the comments provided:
Liking
As discussed in more detail, any activity can be liked.
Sharing
Discussed in more detail here, group messages can be shared with others.

Additional information

One of the more obvious changes to the Recent Activity pane is that more information about each piece of content and the related actions is displayed more visually. The standard display of content in the activity stream is as follows:
  1. The name of the user who took the action (and their avatar) is shown, along with a description of the action (here, "liked a blog post").
  2. The relative time of the action ("Just now") and the site where the action was taken are listed.
  3. More detail about the content is displayed, such as file name, file size, author and original content date, etc.
When comments have been added and items liked, they will be displayed as well:

Removing group messages

As noted here, group messages may be deleted from the activity stream by users with the appropriate privileges.

Infinite scrolling

There is no pagination for the Recent Activity. Select
Load more
 to display more activity.

Recent activity options

  • Users can choose wikis, blogs and event activities to be suppressed from the activity stream. This is done when creating or editing the wiki, blog or event activity and the user selects the
    Suppress all notifications and activity
     checkbox:
This ensures that on creation, or for any future updates of this content, the activity stream will not be updated.
  • You can now allow a microblog to be sent to an entire site group. This can be sent by a member of that group or from site/system admins. To do this, when writing a microblog, you have the share option:
Or, via
More actions
 >
Share
:
You can now select groups or organisations as recipients:
  • Groups can now be mentioned within the activity stream:
To enable this, navigate to
Admin
 >
Site settings
 >
Security
:
And within the
@Mention group
 drop-down, select either
Internal users only
 or
All site members
 to enable the ability to mention groups. Select
Save
 to save your changes.

This article applies to:

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