Project History

 
Project Permission Needed: Project Administrator

Overview

Project History allows Project Administrators to review project activity over the last 120 days. Project History provides detailed information about what changed, when it changed, and who changed it. You can see events such as changes to project settings, task updates, updated or deleted scheduled hours, and much more. You can use Project History to monitor project activity and ensure your team members are following the proper processes.

To open Project History, select the Actions (“   ”) icon in a project located to the right of the project name, then select Project History.

The Project History page displays the following information for each event:

• Details—Select the Details (“   ”) icon to see the Associated Data for the event—such as the associated user name, task name, and/or project name—and a Comparison of the record before and after the event. The things that changed are highlighted in blue.
  
  Note: If an item in the Associated Data section has since been deleted, you'll see "Deleted" instead of the name. The name of a deleted task will still be available if the task is in a project that hasn't been deleted.
• Record Type—The type of record (e.g. project, task, expense, etc.).
• Summary—A summary of the event.
• Record ID—The ID of the record.
• Event—The action type (e.g. created, updated, deleted, etc.).
• Date—The date and time when the event occurred.
• User ID—The ID of the user who made the change.
• Full Name—The full name of the user who made the change.

You can scroll through the pages of events using the options at the bottom of the page. New events that occur while you are in Project History will not appear until you refresh the page, apply filters, or change the number of events that display per page.

For a list of the records, events, and properties that you can view in Project History, see the Subscribed Events Reference article.

Filter Project History

You can filter Project History to see only the information you’re interested in. To open the Filters modal, click the Filters button above the table. For more information about the Filters modal, see the Filters Overview article.

The following filtering options appear in the Fields section:

• Record Types—View events for specific records, such as tasks, scheduled hours, etc.
• Date—View events within a specific date range.
  Note: The date filter is limited to the past 10 days. However, if Extended History is enabled for your account, the oldest date you can select in the date filter is the date Extended History was enabled.
• User—View events for specific users.
  Note: Users that don't belong to your account (e.g. non-Network external project participants) will not appear as options for this filter.
• Task—View events for specific tasks. Note that this filter does not list all of the tasks in the project; it lists only the tasks that had events in the past 120 days.

Configure Columns

You can determine which columns to display in the table and in what order.

1. Select the Configure Columns (“   ”) icon that appears to the upper right of the table.
2. In the modal that appears, check or uncheck columns to control which ones appear in the table.
3. Drag and drop columns to change the order in which they are displayed.
4. Select Save to update the view.

The view will reset if you leave the page or log out.

Export Project History

1. Select the Export option to the upper right of the table.
2. Select an export option:
   • Standard—Each event is represented by a single row. Information about individual fields are in the Payload Changes, Previous Payload, and Current Payload columns, which contain JSON.
   • Split Field Detail—Each event is represented by multiple rows, where each field of the record has its own row. The rows representing fields within an event can be associated to one another via the Event ID column. This option is useful if you require field-by-field information for each event to be easily available in the spreadsheet for further processing.
3. Select a file option:
   • CSV
   • Excel

An email containing a link to download the export will be emailed to you. Any filters you've applied to the table will also be applied to the export.

The following columns are in the export:

• Project—The name of the project the record is associated with, if any.
• Project ID—The ID of the project the record is associated with, if any.
• Record Type—The type of the record.
• Record ID—The ID of the record.
• User Full Name—The name of the user who made the change.
• User Email—The email address of the user who made the change.
• User ID—The ID of the user who made the change.
• Date—The date and time when the event occurred.
• Timezone—The timezone of the Date.
• Event—The action type (e.g. created, updated, deleted, etc.).
• Summary—A summary of the event.
• Payload Changes—A JSON representation of the changes in this event. Each field is a top-level key and contains nested to and from attributes within it.
• Previous Payload—A JSON representation of the state of the record before the event.
• Current Payload—A JSON representation of the state of the record after the event.

When you select Split Field Detail, the following additional columns are available in the export:

• Event ID—The event ID.
• Field Label— The label of the field (e.g. Start Date).
• Field—The name of the field (e.g. start_date).
• Value Before Event— The value of the field before the event.
• Value After Event— The value of the field after the event.
• Value Changed— Whether this field was changed. If the field was not changed, this column is empty.

Saved Views

With Saved Views, you can create your own custom views based on frequently-used filters. This allows you to quickly access your frequently used views without having to manually reapply the same filters each time you visit Project History. You can save up to 200 views.

Views created in Project History are unique from those created in Recent History. Saved views are also member-specific and cannot be shared with other members; each user must create their own views. If you log out or leave and return to Project History, the view that is your "default" will be loaded.

For more information on using views, please see the Saved Views Overview article.