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Check Timeline

The Timeline on a check's page is the chronological record of everything that happened to the check: its creation, every change to its configuration, automatic adjustments, and the comments your team leaves along the way. It keeps a change and the reason behind it in the same place. The Timeline sits next to the Definition on the check's page. See Check Views.

Entries load as you scroll, so older ones appear without paging through the list.

Formerly Activity and History

This section was first labeled Activity, then History. It is now the Timeline, as on the other assets, because it carries discussion alongside the change record.

What the Timeline Records

Each entry shows who did what and when:

  • Creation. The first entry records how the check was created. When Profile created it as an AI Managed check, the entry is attributed to Qualytics and links to that Profile operation: hover the entry's avatar to open it.
  • Changes. Every saved change to the check's configuration, properties, status, or tags. When one save changes several properties, they are grouped into a single entry.
  • Importance changes. A change to the check's Importance gets its own entry. When your action caused it, for example editing the check's tags, it is credited to you with a Qualytics co-author badge. Otherwise it is credited to Qualytics alone.

Reviewing a Change

Short values show inline on the entry, reading from <previous value> to <new value>. A long change collapses behind a View changes control instead, so a long property never floods the Timeline. This happens when the two values together run past roughly 170 characters, or when either one contains a line break. The control reports the before and after lengths, for example 32 → 166 chars, and expands into a panel with the From and To values. Any field can collapse this way, a rewritten description as much as a filter clause.

Past Versions

Each entry has a check icon on its right side. Clicking it opens a side panel with the check's full configuration as it was at that point. The Version At field gives the exact date and time that version took effect.

Comments

You can discuss the check directly on its Timeline:

  • Comment on the check. Use the comment box above the Timeline, with the placeholder Leave a comment (use @ to mention users). The comment takes its place in the Timeline, in chronological order.
  • Comment on a specific change. Click Comment below a change entry. The comment stays attached to that entry, so a threshold change carries the request it came from. Once an entry has comments, they collapse into a pill with the authors' avatars, the comment count, and when the last comment was posted.
  • Reply to a comment. Click Reply below a comment. Threads are one level deep, so you reply to a comment, not to a reply.
  • Mention a teammate. Type @ and pick a user from the list. They receive an in-app Mention notification that opens the check, expands the thread, and highlights the comment, even when it sits further back in the Timeline.

Authors can edit and delete their own comments from the options menu on the comment. Users with the Admin role can delete anyone's comment, and nobody can edit someone else's. Deleting a comment that already has replies leaves a placeholder reading This comment was deleted, so the replies stay visible.

Comments on an archived check are read-only. Existing comments stay visible and the comment controls stay on screen, but posting, editing, or deleting a comment is rejected with an error until the check is restored.

Permissions

Action Minimum team permission on the datastore
Read the Timeline and its comments Reporter
Post a comment, reply, or edit or delete your own comment Viewer

See Team Permissions.

See Also

  • Check Examples

    Scenarios that show ownership and AI Managed checks in practice.

    Check Examples

  • Check Permissions

    Which team permissions can view, create, edit, archive, and delete checks, change owners, and edit AI Managed checks.

    Check Permissions

  • How a Check Works

    What a check is made of, who creates it, how AI Managed checks are generated, how a Scan evaluates it, and how its status changes.

    How a Check Works

  • Authored Checks

    What an Authored check is, who governs it, and how it differs from an AI Managed check.

    Authored Checks

  • AI Managed Checks

    What an AI Managed check is, which edits convert it to Authored, and how to go back.

    AI Managed Checks

  • Check Ownership

    Who is responsible for a check, the four ways ownership changes, notifications, and filtering by owner.

    Check Ownership

  • Check Importance

    How much a check's failures matter, and how its tags raise or lower it.

    Check Importance

  • Impact Metrics

    Numbers measured over a check's failed records that show how big a failure is.

    Impact Metrics

  • Dry Run

    What a Dry Run evaluates and how to read its results, anomalies, and source records.

    Dry Run

  • Check Views

    The check lists, the check page, and the side panel: how to reach each one, what it shows, and what you can do there.

    Check Views

  • Check Anomalies

    The anomalies a check has produced, and how to triage them from the check's page.

    Check Anomalies