Keeping tabs of what the admins do...

Hi Kyle,
My users are complaining that the admin has the right to delete their post and modify their post without them knowing what was modified or deleted. Would it be possible to keep a track of the deleted posts? ie they get put onto a state or get a different asset (eg addition of deleted. in front of the asset) and then you can (with some difficulty) find them back?

ie nothing ever gets truly lost unless deleted from the backend?

That would be a cool idea so as to stop the recriminations against the admins.

A "trash" state might be implemented in the future, but likely won't be as delete should mean delete. Publish state for activity is not available for frontend usage and is meant for API usage, but might be exposed for frontend moderation in a later release to just allow unpublishing activity entries.

If you want to log your moderators actions use CB Auto Actions to insert to Joomlas action log or use a custom database. You can use activity_onAfterDeleteStreamActivity to log something when an activity entry is deleted for example.

No idea how to do that yet but I will give it a try. But yeah this sounds like a very good way to go around it, even though it would have been preferable to have it in CB directly.

Hi Kyle.
I have now a very good idea on how to do the "keeping tabs of what the admins do" and would like to ask for your help.

Everytime someone edits an activity as a moderator or owner (ie when [user_id] is NOT [moderator_ID]) then it should trigger activity_onBeforeUpdateStreamActivity.
As owner I would like to use the moderator (I am guessing this would be [var3_user_id]? Or maybe I use Super User as owner...), as text I would use "has updated the post by [original author] from [old content] to [new content]"

Using that, I could make the asset eg "Admin.activity.edit" then create an activity stream that ONLY shows all assets "admin.activity.*"

I would like to do the same with "activity_onBeforeDeleteStreamActivity". Can you help me to find out the values of each of those things?

You can use the below if you want an action to only apply to moderators editing other users posts.

Global
Triggers: activity_onBeforeUpdateStreamActivity
User: Self
Access: All Moderators
Conditions
Field: Custom > Value
Custom Value: [var3_user_id]
Operator: Not Equal To
Value: [user_id]

Hi Kyle,
Thank you very much, I hadnt thought of restricting the access to all moderators. I now wanted to get at the name of moderator [user_ID], the name of the [var3_userID], the content of the old activity (that was changed) and the content of the new activity.
What are the values (ie [xyz]) I have to use in order to get the auto action to produce a viable activity?

Thanks very much!