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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.

House list with one house selected and the sidebar's Activity panel expanded, showing checked-out, updated, items-added, and created entries with actor and relative time
A house's activity in the list sidebar: item actions, edits, and the original create, each with who and when.

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, 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 a delete

Deleting a house, room, item, contact, category, or themed room shows a confirmation with an Undo button for a few seconds. Missing it 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 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.

Notification bell popover open over the categories list, showing a Deleted Holiday Mantel Decor entry with a Restore link and an unseen dot on the bell icon
The bell keeps a Restore handle on each delete for an hour.

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 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: