Activity Trello Powerup
Detailed Activity

The Detailed Activity setting changes the way the Activity powerup for Trello records your data. By default the powerup only records activity in bulk. The total duration of interactions of each card and user is recorded, but no additional data is stored. In this mode all Activity data is stored directly in trello, together with your other data.

With the Detailed Activity setting enabled, recording changes to an event based record of your Activity, including the time and type of interaction, server synchronized timestamps, and user, card and list associated with each interaction. Interaction events create a continuous, immutable stream of all team activity, without changing anything about how these interactions work.

Trello provides limited storage to powerups, usually about 4KB of JSON-data per card. Detailed activity records can easily overflow these limits even for small team sizes and relatively low levels of interaction. When enabling Detailed Activity the resulting continuous stream of activity is stored outside of trello on our own systems, with an additional bulk record stored directly in trello.

How it works

Once Detailed Activity is enabled, the Activity powerup will require you to give it access to your account through the trello api. It will request this access with the minimum possible level of permissions and will use it exclusively for secure authentication.

Once you follow the Trello authentication flow and give the powerup the required permissions, the Activity powerup will immediately start operating in Detailed Activity mode.

The authentication flow might be blocked by the popup-blocker of your browser. If this happens, a notification will appear on the top of the browser viewport with several options on how to deal with the blocked popup. If you allow the popup to open, you can continue the authentication flow normally.

If you are working as a team, every member of your team will have to authenticate individually. A notification informing them about the need to authenticate will appear whenever they enter the board, and an authentication button will appear in their powerup settings.

Unauthenticated members will be able to continue to use the Activity powerup normally, but their activity will continue to only be recorded in bulk and might not be available to the rest of your team in all contexts. Once they finish authentication, their existing activity will be synced with the server and subsequent activity will be recorded in the stream of events.

You can revoke api access to your account at any time by going into your Account Settings, scrolling to the Application section and clicking the Revoke button in the Activity powerup entry. Should you want to revoke access, but continue using Activity, you should additionally deactivate Detailed Activity in the powerup settings.