Overview
You can easily view, post and edit messages for activities in Activity Center.
Posting Messages
To post a message:
- Hover over the row of the activity you wish to post a message for.
- Click Details (
).
- Scroll down to the Messages, Files, Audit Trail panel in the activity details.
- Select the Messages checkbox to ensure you can view and post messages.
- Type your message in the text entry bar.
- Click 'Post' to save the message.
You can post and exchange messages with your fellow team members within an activity.
Messages associated with an activity can also be viewed on its details page (Messages, Files, Audit trail section), or My assignments page. You can always check out how many messages have been posted for an activity in total, as well as see how many new messages have been posted at a given moment, if any, in Activity Center.
Viewing Messages
To view messages posted for an activity, take these steps:
- Log in to Easy Projects.
- Access the Messages, Files, Audit Trail panel.
- Select the Messages checkbox.
- As a result, all messages posted for the activity will be displayed as a log of messages, uploaded files and audit trail items.
- New items, posted by other users and not yet viewed, are marked with light-blue circles. The counter of unread items is also displayed next to the Messages checkbox.
Editing/deleting a posted message
- have posted the message; or
- have the permission to edit or delete the activity the message is attached to.
To edit a posted message:
- Open the details panel of the activity you wish to edit messages of.
- Scroll down to the Messages, Files, Audit Trail panel.
- Select the Messages checkbox to ensure you can view and post messages.
- Hover over the message you wish to edit until the More Actions menu button (
) appears.
- Click the control and select Edit.
- Edit the message.
- Press Ctrl + Enter to save the message, or Esc to discard the changes.
To delete a message:
- Open the details panel of the activity you wish to edit messages of.
- Scroll down to the Messages, Files, Audit Trail panel.
- Select the Messages checkbox to ensure you can view and post messages.
- Hover over the message you wish to edit until the More Actions menu button (
) appears.
- Click the control and select Delete.
- Click Delete again to confirm deletion.
Request Approval
You can request approval for posts you create. It is an efficient way to make sure your messages and files you upload are treat with due attention by people concerned. Just include them in the list of approvers and post your message. For details, see here.
@-mentions
You can mention fellow project members by typing @ and selecting a name from a dropdown. For details, see here.
Timestamps
The timestamps automatically added for system events are time zone-sensitive. It means that a user in time zone T+2 will see an event with a timestamp that is two hours ahead of that which a user in time zone T will see.
- User A (whose time zone is UTC-2) adds a message at 10:20 AM. He opens project Project audit trail and sees that he added the message at 10:20 AM.
- User B (whose time zone is UTC+1) opens the project audit trail log and sees that User A added a message at 01:20 PM.