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Ben_Orozco
7 - App Architect
7 - App Architect

TL;DR; Summarize activity feed between regular events (updates, etcโ€ฆ) and more important comments

I need to scroll up a lot to find the comments Iโ€™m interested in:

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IMO minor activity events, such as field updates, should be collapsing and expanded-on-click/summarized in order to have a better visualisation and user experience.

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Elias_Gomez_Sai
13 - Mars
13 - Mars

As an alternative, you can hide the Revision History and leave only the Comments visible.

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Ben_Orozco
7 - App Architect
7 - App Architect

Thanks! I didnโ€™t know about that feature, I guess that might be a paid feature because Iโ€™m in a free team :frowning_face:

Elias_Gomez_Sai
13 - Mars
13 - Mars

I see it on the bases of a Free team I have with demos for the forum.

Katherine_Duh
Airtable Alumni (Retired)

The ability to hide/show history in expanded records is independent of whether your base is in a paid workspace or notโ€”meaning you can use it in any of your bases, even if youโ€™re not paying Airtable anything. Similarly, the hide/show comments and revision history button can be found in expanded records for bases on all plans.

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Ben_Orozco
7 - App Architect
7 - App Architect

Oh sorry, I think I misunderstoodโ€ฆ Iโ€™m aware of the hide/show functionality for the Activity feedโ€ฆ

I meant for the feed itself, its too noisy/verbose, when Iโ€™m looking for pas comments

Jeremy_Oglesby
14 - Jupiter
14 - Jupiter

What @Elias_Gomez_Sainz posted above about hiding the revision history will work for you then. That is available in free bases as well.

Click on the โ€œclockโ€ icon next to โ€œShareโ€ and then on โ€œRecord revision historyโ€ as @Elias_Gomez_Sainz showed in the .gif โ€” this does not delete the revision history, only hides it, leaving only the comments, which is exactly what you want.

I do this on all my bases as the default state. Then, on the rare occasions where I need to see who made a change and when, I go and re-enable the Revision history to see what I need, and then hide it again when Iโ€™m done. That works pretty well for me, and allows me to keep comments front and center as the default state of my activity feed.

Ben_Orozco
7 - App Architect
7 - App Architect

Thanks, I can confirm now it worked in another base I own!

FWIW, what happened I was added to that base as collaborator but as Editor, not Creator :see_no_evil:

Thanks, kind regards!

Jean-Marc_Vlami
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Iโ€™m hoping thereโ€™s a way to add an activity feed as a field in a table. I need to have several teams comment on specific accounts, but I prefer to group those teamsโ€™ comments, rather than have them all bunched up together in expanded view.
Is there a way to add a running comment field in a table? Or any other way to filter comments in the expanded view by several participants?
Thanks anyone!
JM