Contact Update Report

[bjendres]

You can make a good case for wanting to know what parts of your contact has been changed by XCM. Therefore, there should be an option to generate an activity with the actual changes applied to the contact, pretty much like the diff activity does for remaining differences.

[bjendres]

@jaapjansma is this what you had in mind with #62?

[jaapjansma]

yes but then per contact.

[bjendres]

yes but then per contact.

Isn't this always 'per contact'?

[bjendres]

After talking to @jaapjansma, I believe his suggestion makes sense, because this is the only way to have a mixed activity with applied and pending changes.

[jensschuppe]

Will updated and pending changes be distinguishable in the activity? ~Does it make sense to provide an "Update activity" as well (since that'd be the same code - just in case, someone wants that, too)?~

~I'd also vote for clear descriptions of what is being recorded with those options - there has been some confusion in the past, apparently.~ Sorry, didn't notice there's already some work done on that.

[jaapjansma]

No the activity record the original data and the submitted data without indicating whether the changes have been applied or not. But that make sense probably in the context of the site user because it is also their configuration.

[bjendres]

Maybe we should find better labels for the two options. "Update and Difference Activity" sounds confusing compared to "Diff Activity". I would suggest:

• "Contact Value Comparison" (for all data, i.e. Jaap's new thing)
• "Unresolved Differences" (for the old feature)

There might also be a point in adding the "Activity Status" field in this context. Pending makes sense for the "Unresolved Differences", but if you use the "Contact Value Comparison" for documentation only, you might want Completed...

Sorry for scope-creeping, @jaapjansma ...

[jaapjansma]

I have renamed the handlers. See PR #63

[jensschuppe]

Since we're in beta phase for 1.8, this will have to wait until 1.9.