Activity Stream
Activities of PIRS users such as creating or editing new correspondence or documents, sending transmittal slips and comments or creating new contacts or action items are always documented within the PIRS Activity Stream.
The Activity Stream lists all actions but is restricted by the users individual access rights. This means that each user will only be able to see the activities he has the right to be informed about and for which is allowed to access the related items in PIRS. For example, should your project manager create a confidential document, than this event would only be visible within the activity stream of those PIRS users who have at least read access to the respective document. All other users would not have this particular event listed in their Activity Stream.
All actions listed in your Activity Stream include links to the contact who carried out the event as well as to the related PIRS item (e.g. the document or the correspondence that was created).
There are two different type of Activity Streams. You can either take a look at latest activities focused on one particular folder or referring to the entire project.
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Folder based Activity Stream
Up to PIRS release 2.4 there were two separate areas within each folder, one for the correspondence and the other for the documents stored within the respective folder. Since PIRS 3.0, users will find a third section presented to them in each folder titled "Activity Stream".
Within this third folder area you are able to follow all current folder-based activities. -
Project based Activity Stream
In order to keep track of all current events and actions of your project, PIRS offers a view titled "Activity Stream" that displays all new activities regardless which folder or PIRS area they occurred in. The view can be found in the "Views" area of your navigation panel. Furthermore, the view can also be added to your project dashboard as widget.
Communicate using Distribution Lists & Posts
Each activity listed in your Activity Stream offers two ways to communicate with your team and create notes for the initiator or other team members. First of all, you can click the "Distribute" action which will allow you to send a distribution list to your team members containing a link to the related PIRS item. So if for example the entry in the Activity Stream would state that Erica Murphey has updated a specific Meta Document, the distribution list would include a link to this specific Meta Document.
Second of all, you are able to leave a note concerning the entry in your Activity Stream by clicking "Post".
A message box will open where you can enter your comment.
As soon as you click the save symbol ( 
) your post will appear in the bottom part of the message box.
As indicated by the following screenshot you are still able to edit or delete your own posts.
Should other team members like to leave posts as well, either as answers to previous posts or as comments to the activity stream entry, their notes will be added within the already existing posts box.