Everybody on the same page
With a lot of different information going back and forth between team members, the Activity Stream is a great way to stay up to date with everything that's happening in your team. You can find all the latest actions, post or view comments and status updates for everyone in your team or in a specific subgroup.Streams have been an important part of many modern social networks, and are also becoming an important way to communicate within businesses and organizations. It's an easy way to get your announcements or questions & answers out to entire teams, without spamming and cluttering their Inbox. This also makes it easier for other people to reply on activity items, participate in discussions and keep people up to date about their progress. Because inactive discussions automatically "sink" to the bottom of the stream, the stream is good central place for both having active discussions as well as posting about updates (like micro blogging social networks).
Permissions -- who can see which updates
Users can only view and discuss page activity (e.g. new pages, page updates) about pages for which they have permissions to view them (see Permissions).On the stream you can also directly reply to an existing discussion, or reply to page update activity. When you post a reply it is shared with the same people as the original message you're replying to.
When you post a new message, it is normally shared with everyone in the Papyrs account who can access the stream. You can also share a message with your subgroup only, see the next section.
If you're unsure who has access, you can easily see who is able to view a specific item and its replies in the stream, by clicking on the lock icon, see the screenshot below:
Subgroups
If you have many people in your organization, and a lot of activity is going on, you usually just want to share and view activity within a certain subgroup (like your department or team). On the stream, you can easily filter activity by, or post messages to, a certain subgroup. (To read more about setting up subgroups, see Subgroups).To filter activity from a certain subgroup, simply select the name of the subgroup from the menu on the right. Once a certain subgroup is selected, you can also choose to share a new message with everyone, or just with your subgroup. See the screenshot below:
If you select a subgroup that you're not a member of, you can only view activity in that subgroup that's shared with you.
You can also subscribe to email upates about activity on the stream in a certain subgroup, by clicking on the envelope icon in the titlebar.
Example
In the screenshot below, you'll see an example of the activity stream in action. Mark just approved a Paid Time Off request from Mary, who sends Mark a reply about the status update (only form administrators for the Paid Time Off page, and Mary will be able to see this update). Bert has sent a question about printers to the entire team.