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Activity ​

All events within d9 are tracked and stored in the activities collection. This gives you full accountability over everything that happens. Learn more about Activity.

The Activity Object ​

action string
Action that was performed.

collection string
Collection identifier in which the item resides.

comment string
User comment. This will store the comments that show up in the right sidebar of the item edit page in the admin app.

id integer
Unique identifier for the object.

ip string
The IP address of the user at the time the action took place.

item string
Unique identifier for the item the action applied to. This is always a string, even for integer primary keys.

timestamp string
When the action happened.

user many-to-one
The user who performed this action. Many-to-one to users.

user_agent string
User agent string of the browser the user used when the action took place.

revisions one-to-many
Any changes that were made in this activity. One-to-many to revisions.

json
{
	"action": "create",
	"collection": "articles",
	"comment": null,
	"id": 5,
	"ip": "139.178.128.0",
	"item": "1",
	"timestamp": "2021-02-02T12:50:26-05:00",
	"user": "2d321940-69f5-445f-be6b-c773fa58a820",
	"user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.2 Safari/605.1.15",
	"revisions": [4]
}

List Activity Actions ​

Returns a list of activity actions.

Query Parameters ​

Supports all global query parameters.

Returns ​

An array of up to limit activity objects. If no items are available, data will be an empty array.

REST API ​

GET /activity
SEARCH /activity

Learn more about SEARCH ->

GraphQL ​

POST /graphql/system
graphql
type Query {
	activity: [directus_activity]
}
Example ​
graphql
query {
	activity {
		...
	}
}

Retrieve Activity Action ​

Returns a single activity action by primary key.

Query Parameters ​

Supports all global query parameters.

Returns ​

Returns an activity object if a valid identifier was provided.

REST API ​

GET /activity/:id

GraphQL ​

POST /graphql/system
graphql
type Query {
	activity_by_id(id: ID!): directus_activity
}
Example ​
graphql
query {
	activity_by_id(id: 15) {
		...
	}
}

Create a Comment ​

Creates a new comment on a given item.

Request Body ​

collection Required
Collection in which the item resides.

item Required
Primary Key of the item to comment on.

comment Required
The comment content. Supports Markdown.

Returns ​

Returns the activity object of the created comment.

REST API ​

POST /activity/comment
Example ​
json
// POST /activity/comment

{
	"collection": "pages",
	"item": 3,
	"comment": "Hello World"
}

GraphQL ​

POST /graphql/system
graphql
type Mutation {
	create_comment(collection: String!, item: ID!, comment: String!): directus_activity
}
Example ​
graphql
mutation {
	create_comment(
		collection: "pages",
		item: 3,
		comment: "Hello World"
	) { ... }
}

Update a Comment ​

Updates an existing comment by activity action primary key.

Request Body ​

comment Required
The updated comment content. Supports Markdown.

Returns ​

Returns the activity object of the created comment.

REST API ​

PATCH /activity/comment/:id
Example ​
json
// PATCH /activity/comment/15

{
	"comment": "Hello World!!"
}

GraphQL ​

POST /graphql/system
graphql
type Mutation {
	update_comment(id: ID!, comment: String!): directus_activity
}
Example ​
graphql
mutation {
	update_comment(
		id: 3,
		comment: "Hello World",
	) { ... }
}

Delete a Comment ​

Deletes a comment.

REST API ​

DELETE /activity/comment/:id
Example ​
DELETE /activity/comment/15

GraphQL ​

POST /graphql/system
graphql
type Mutation {
	delete_comment(id: ID): delete_one
}
Example ​
graphql
mutation {
	delete_comment(id: 3) {
		id
	}
}