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Activity & Restore
See who changed what and when, undo a delete, and learn what restore brings back.
Overview
Staging Assistant keeps a running record of changes: creates, edits, deletes, and items moving on and off houses. It uses that record to let you bring deleted records back.
On a list page, the Activity feed covers the records in the current view; on a house, item, or contact detail page, it covers only that record. History is kept indefinitely; there's no cutoff after which changes disappear.
On a list, the feed is available on desktop only. On a detail page, it shows on phones as well.
Each entry shows what happened, who did it, and when. A run of similar back-to-back edits is merged into a single entry so one editing session doesn't flood the feed.
Movers see the feed too, with two redactions: teammate names are hidden, and edits to financial fields (fees, costs, prices) don't appear. See Team & Roles for the full role model.
What gets recorded
The feed covers the changes that matter operationally:
- A record was created, edited (the entry lists which fields changed), deleted, or restored.
- A category change on an item: Added Lighting, or Added Seating, removed Decor.
- Items added to a house, removed, checked out, or returned, each with the count and the first few item names.
- Items moved or copied between rooms or houses.
- A themed room applied to a house, by name.
- Photo changes and room reordering.
Undoing an edit or delete
Edits and deletes can both be taken back from the activity feed. Deleting a house, room, item, contact, category, or themed room also shows a confirmation with an Undo button for a few seconds, and missing it isn't fatal: the same delete stays undoable from the bell and the feed.
Undo on an edit entry puts back the values that edit replaced. When the entry belongs to a bulk edit or an import, it offers to undo the whole batch.
Two deletions are different. Removing a teammate's account is permanent. There is no undo, only a fresh invite (see Team & Roles). And photo deletes have their own undo confirmation but never reach the notification bell, so it is the only window (see Photos).
The notification bell
The bell in the top-right corner collects your recent deletes, each with a Restore button, plus the occasional product announcement.
A dot on the bell marks unseen entries. Delete entries stick around for an hour, and they're local to the browser you deleted in. Sign in on another machine and the bell starts fresh. After the hour is up, the activity feed is the place to restore from.
What restore brings back
Restore is available from three places: the undo confirmation right after the delete, the bell for an hour, and the Restore button on the delete entry in the activity feed, which has no time limit.
A restored record returns with all of its fields, its photos, and its connections. A restored house has its rooms, its holds, and its usage history back. A restored item is back on hold at the same houses, in the same themed rooms and categories, with its barcodes and its Times Used count. A restored themed room has its item list, a restored category is applied to the same items, and a restored contact is client or agent on the same houses again.
Restoring follows the same permissions as deleting: Stagers and Admins can do both, Movers can do neither.
What's next
The records the activity feed tracks each have their own page:
- What holds and checkouts mean for availability: Holds & Checkouts.
- Deleting and restoring houses in practice: Houses.
- Photo-specific undo behavior: Photos.
- Who can delete and restore: Team & Roles.