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title: "What is different about Comala Document Approval v2+"
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[DATA CENTER] 

## Overview

**Comala Document Control for Data Center** is used to manage your Confluence documents.

Comala Document Approval v2.0 Data Center introduces a new capability - **Document Activity**.

**Document Activity** is a step change in the way the app stores workflow events, such as state changes and approvals, providing enhanced performance and stability when loading document activity with large numbers of states and approvals. The capability includes

## Workflow document activity

We know that Comala Document Approval **Page Activity** is a key capability for many of our customers, especially those that rely on it for regulatory or compliance needs.

Comala Document Approval 2 replaces **Page Activity** with **Document Activity**. **Document Activity **is a step change in the way the app stores workflow events such as state changes and approvals.

This delivers:

- enhanced performance and stability when loading document activity with large numbers of states and approvals, mitigating the risk of data loss due to size limits.
- a new Document Activity Report with a more intuitive layout and improved filtering including the flexibility to add advanced filters

> 📝 This is a significant change from the key capability of **Page Activity** and requires an upgrade of existing data.

## Getting ready

To take advantage of the new capabilities of Comala Document Approval 2 you will need to upgrade your existing activity data to a new data format.

- **new spaces** will automatically utilize document activity to record and report workflow events and actions
- **existing spaces without an applied workflow** (no previous workflow events or actions) will automatically utilize document activity on application of a workflow

To take advantage of the new capabilities of [Comala Document Approval 2.0+](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649822314) in data center you need to **upgrade your existing workflow activity data** to the new document activity data format.

The upgrade will require your Confluence Administrator to enable Confluence **Read Only Mode** while the upgrade runs.

So that you can plan this upgrade the [Document Activity Upgrade console](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649789715) allows you to:

- **check** your page activity will upgrade successfully, and get an estimate of the time required
- **upgrade** your page activity and enable the new document activity capabilities

> ℹ️ Checks can be done at anytime, however you must enable **Read Only Mode** before choosing to upgrade your workflow data.

> 📝 The [Document Activity Upgrade](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649789715) console is available in releases prior to Comala Document Approval 2 from [v1.11](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649691637)+

## Related pages

- [https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649527410](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649527410)
- [https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649822471](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649822471)
- [https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649822364](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649822364)
- [https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649789715](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649789715)