If you need to quickly check the history of an item in your workspace and you can't export (or don't want to bother with) the full workspace audit log, you can access an individual item's history from within your Productboard workspace, as long as the item's type is one of the following:
The actions tracked by an item's history will vary between item types, but generally you'll be able to see the item's creator, when ownership was changed and by whom, and when certain fields like timeframe were last updated.
Accessing an item's history
To view an eligible item's history:
- Click the item to open its sidebar.
- Click the ••• More actions button in the top right corner of the sidebar.
- Select History.
Querying item history with Spark
Spark can answer natural-language questions about entity change history directly in chat. Instead of opening each item and scrolling its history log, you can ask Spark to retrieve and summarize changes across one or more entities.
Here are some examples of what you can ask:
- “What changed on this initiative in the last seven days?”
- “When did this feature move to In Progress?”
- “Who updated this feature last, and what did they change?”
- “Which features have had no activity in the last 60 days?”
- “What was the status before the last change?”
Spark reads the history of features, initiatives, objectives, and other PM entities. You can also ask about patterns across a set of entities, such as which initiatives have been updated most in a given period or how long features typically stay in a given status before moving on.
For more on how to get started with Spark, see Productboard Spark.