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Add hide toggles to the admin activities timeline (and some design cleanup) - #2475

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🤖 suggested review level: 3 Read 📖 contained filter logic on the activities index + a taxonomy decision and a form-scoping bug fix

Three switches on the admin Activities page hide whole categories of noise so a timeline can be pared down to record changelogs and communications — facilitators kept wading through login/password churn to find the edits that matter.

What's new

  • Hide account — excludes auth.* (login, password reset, email change, lock, admin grant, account setup/delete, …) and User-record mutations (create/update/destroy.user).
  • Hide interactions — excludes view / print / download / search / filter / zero-result-search noise.
  • Hide communications — drops a person's email communications from their timeline.

Person History defaults

  • The History link on a person's page opens with account + interaction hidden, so you land on changelogs + comms; flip the switches to see everything.

Bug fix: filter form kept losing the person/user/record scope

  • The filter form submitted only its visible fields to request.path, so person_id (and user_id / resource_type / resource_id) were dropped on any toggle/search/audience/time change — the page silently reverted to the global feed and unrelated events (org autochanges, everyone's logins) reappeared.
  • Now carried as hidden fields; the sort-header links preserve the hide toggles + scope too.

Worth a look

  • "Account" deliberately also hides update.user churn (fires alongside auth callbacks), not just auth.*. Meaningful account changes still surface via their dedicated auth.* events (email changed, admin granted, …).
  • Toggles are check_box_tag sliders inside the existing filter form, so the collection controller auto-submits into the activity_results frame — no new JS.
Screenshot 2026-09-01 at 3 08 25 PM

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@maebeale @claude
Add hide toggles to the admin activities timeline
d93a62b 
Facilitators reviewing a person's history want to see meaningful record
changelogs and communications without wading through login/password churn
and read-and-browse noise. Add three switches — hide account, hide
interactions, hide communications — and default the person History link to
hiding account + interaction events.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Keep the activities filter form scoped to a person/user/record
7addb5c 
Submitting the filter form (any toggle, search, audience, or time change)
posted only the visible fields to request.path, dropping the person_id /
user_id / resource_type / resource_id that scope the timeline — so the page
silently reverted to the global feed and unrelated events (e.g. org
autochanges) reappeared. Carry those scoping params as hidden fields, and
preserve the hide toggles + scope through the sort-header links too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Merge activity+resource column with action chips and edit links
c8e2169 
Collapse the timeline's Activity and Resource columns into one and their
two search boxes into one, and render the raw event name as a plain-language
action chip (New/Edit/Auto/…) plus the resource title linked to its edit page,
so a non-technical admin can read the feed at a glance.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Match plain-language action words in the activity search
7797cf4 
A low-tech admin sees 'New'/'Edit' chips in the timeline, so let them search
those words too: map each chip label back to its raw action prefix (new->create,
edit->update, search->search/search_zero) from the single ACTION_CHIPS source.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Collapse activity change diffs onto one line
24a9c68 
Show a field's edit as struck-through old value -> new value instead of
stacked Before:/After: rows, so the Details column reads at a glance.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Narrow the activity User and Visit ID columns
91bb0e5 
Truncate the user name to a small fixed width so the timeline's content
columns (Activity, Details) get the room instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Make comment and communication activity rows read as notes
298d0fd 
Point a comment's resource link at the record it's on (affiliation,
scholarship, profile) instead of the comment id, and show its topic/body in
Details. Lay communications out the same way: a Sent/Received chip, Subject
and Body in Details, and the From name in the User column.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Compose activity resource labels and link the whole Activity cell
5c3d60a 
Label affiliations as title + org, event registrations as event + start
month, and payments by what they're allocated to; flag flagged comments with
an orange flag. Make the resource name purple and the specific record grey,
and link the whole Activity cell to the resource with a hover underline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Link the whole communication Activity cell to the notification
6939738 
Match the activity rows: the communication name is purple and the whole
Activity cell opens the notification, with a hover underline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Tidy communication row: inline body, no cell-level notification link
5a8ff7f 
Keep the body text on the same line as its label, and drop the
notification link from the Activity cell (the Subject link still opens it).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Truncate long comment and email bodies with hover-to-see-full
e64354e 
Show ~50 chars of a comment or communication body, full text on hover, so a
long note doesn't blow up the row.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Align Details rows: field name and change on one line, matched sizes
9590ce1 
Show each change as 'Field: old -> new' on a single row instead of stacking
the diff below the name, and size the Topic/Subject/Body labels like the other
field names.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Make the Details cell clickable to the resource, unstyled
21f6028 
Cover the Details cell with an invisible stretched link to the resource so
the whole cell navigates without the purple link styling; inner reference
links stay clickable above it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Make the communication Details cell clickable, unstyled
4e3f748 
Cover the communication Details cell with a stretched link to the
notification and drop the purple Subject link, matching the activity rows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Color the communication name purple to match the other activity rows
0242b1e 
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Link the communication Activity cell to the notification
4d74011 
Match the other activity cells: the whole communication name cell opens the
notification with a hover underline. Add coverage for the incoming Received
chip.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Label a comment's body 'Comment:' in the activity Details
0e7dd79 
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Merge Activity and Details into one timeline column
ced81fe 
Drop the separate Details column and stack each event's details under its name
(indented past the chip), so a row reads as one headline-plus-detail block
instead of spanning a wide gap. Communications follow the same shape.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Refine timeline headline: resource inline, aligned chips, Body label
3931bd5 
Put the resource sublabel on the same line as the name, right-align every chip
in a fixed-width column so the names line up across rows, and revert the
comment label to 'Body:'.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Lead the activity headline with the record, type as grey suffix
12c3550 
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Link the activity Visit ID to the filtered visits index
d63add2 
Break out of the results frame (turbo _top) so the visits index loads full-page.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Add Features & tips entry for the redesigned activities timeline
d94b3dd 
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@maebeale @claude
Truncate activity comment/email bodies at 150 chars, not 50
5b23d77 
Let a body wrap to a second line before trimming; full text still on hover.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Tint comment activity rows with the comments domain color
cc87365 
Match how communication rows carry the notifications tint, so comment rows
read as their own domain at a glance.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Show an affiliation's date span in the activity label
ad6b212 
Append 'Aug'25 - Feb'26' (or 'Aug'25 - present' while active) after the title
and organization, so an affiliation reads with its tenure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Compose scholarship, CE, and event-registration activity labels
c032145 
Scholarship reads as amount + grant + funder, a CE registration as its hours +
license, and an event registration as 'Registration: <event> · <Mon'YY>'.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Trim redundant rows from auth event details
2e844ef 
A login already names the user in its headline, so drop the record,
record type, and updated-by rows and keep just the meaningful detail (sign-in
count).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale @claude
Update people/edit History-link spec for the hidden-noise params
40ed136 
The History link now opens with account and interaction events hidden; align
the view spec's expected href.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@maebeale maebeale changed the title Add hide toggles to the admin activities timeline Add hide toggles to the admin activities timeline (and some design cleanup) Sep 1, 2026
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