Configuring the Activity App
You can configure your Ifc cloud server to automatically send out e-mail notifications to your users for various events like:
- A file or folder has been shared
- A new file or folder has been created
- A file or folder has been changed
- A file or folder has been deleted
Users can see actions (delete, add, modify) that happen to files they have access to. Sharing actions are only visible to the sharer and sharee.
Enabling the Activity App :
The Activity App is shipped and enabled by default. If it is not enabled simply go to your Nextcloud Apps page to enable it.
Configuring your IFC Cloud for the Activity App :
To configure your IFC cloud to send out e-mail notifications a working Email Configuration is mandatory.
Furthermore it is recommended to configure the background job Webcron or Cron as described in Defining Background Jobs.
There is also a configuration option activity_expire_days available in your config.php (See Config.php Parameters) which allows you to clean-up older activities from the database.
Better scheduling of activity emails
In certain scenarios it makes sense to send the activity emails out more regularly, e.g. you want to send the hourly emails always at the full hour, daily emails before people start to work in the morning and weekly mails shall be send on monday morning, so people can read up when starting into the week.
Therefor in Nextcloud 12 a console command was added to allow sending those emails intentionally. This allows to set up special cron jobs on your server with the known granularity, instead of relying on the IFC Cloud cron feature which is not very flexible on scheduling.