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Activity & Restore
Every change is recorded — see who did what and when, undo a delete, and learn what restore brings back.
Overview
Staging Assistant keeps a running record of changes — creates, edits, deletes, items moving on and off houses — and uses that record to let you bring deleted records back. The activity feed is where you read the history; the undo toast and the notification bell are the fast paths back from a mistaken delete.
Every list page and every detail page has an Activity panel in its right sidebar, collapsed by default. On a list it covers the records in the current view; on a house, item, or contact detail page it covers just that record. Entries load ten at a time with a Load more button, and the history is kept indefinitely — there's no cutoff after which changes disappear. The activity feed is available on desktop only; phones don't show the sidebar it lives in.
Each entry shows what happened, who did it, and when. Timestamps are relative ("5 minutes ago") for recent changes and switch to the full date after a week, the record's name links to its page, and 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.
- Items added to a house, removed, checked out, or returned — 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 a delete
Deleting a house, room, item, contact, category, or themed room shows a toast with an Undo button for a few seconds. Missing the toast isn't fatal — the same delete stays undoable from the bell and the feed.
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 toast but never reach the notification bell, so the toast 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 toast 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 and its photos — and for items, its categories and barcodes too. Some of its connections come back with it, but not all:
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 actually mean for availability: Holds & Checkouts.
- Deleting and restoring houses in practice: Houses.
- Photo-specific undo behavior: Photos.
- Who can delete and restore: Team & Roles.