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title: "Work log"
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> Macro (aura-html)

Work log provides detailed data on your team’s activity. It helps you review work patterns to improve culture and team health. Use filters to find specific data and view activity details for your team or a specific user.

If you’re a team lead, manager, or Scrum Master, use this data to view patterns in activity, gauge team performance, and spot opportunities for guidance.

## What can you do with Work log?

Use Work log to:

- View a user’s or team’s activity data.
- Get an overview of where your team members are on their projects.
- Understand a contributor’s typical work pattern and identify breaks in that pattern.
- Understand typical work patterns for each role in your engineering organization. For example, a full-time developer, a junior developer, a senior developer, a product manager, and a QA may all have different work patterns.

## What is activity?

Activity includes code commits, merge commits, PR activity, PR comments, and ticket activity. Each activity corresponds to a separate row and color. Find the activity key below the Work log filter.

Unlike other ticket-based reports in Flow, ticket activity in Work log includes activity from any integration that enables ticket services, such as Jira, ADO, and GitHub.

> ℹ️ Work log shows commits based on the viewer’s time zone, not the commit author’s time zone. This means commits could appear to be on different days depending on the time zone of who’s viewing the report. Find commits shown based on the commit author’s time zone in [Team health insights](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FD/pages/1802141869). The total number of a user’s Coding days may appear different in Work log and Team health insights due to time zone differences.

### How do I find the data I need?

![Work log example overview, with filters and activity nodes displayed.](media://9e86408e-e3f9-4578-b84d-2c94fa4a1afd)

Work log has three ways to narrow and sort data:

1. Use the top filter to sort and search by user and team; include or exclude nested teams; search and narrow by repo; and display or hide weekends.
2. Use the sort filter to the left to filter activity by type; display activity by user, team, or repo; sort by name or activity level; and utilize custom filters.
3. Click the Previous Page and Next Page arrows to move between weeks. Work log displays up to 20 records per page.

The Work log includes outlier commits when viewing the commit data. To see which commits are outliers, check the **Outliers** box in the *Custom* filter on the left. This changes outlier commits to be displayed as outline-only activity nodes, so you can visually distinguish them. The **Outliers** box is available once you enable [advanced outlier detection settings](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FD/pages/1802535113).

> 📝 Other reports, like [Team health insights](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FD/pages/1802141869), don't include outlier commits in commit-based metrics. The total number of commits in those reports may be lower than those in Work log. To visualize which commits aren't contributing to your commit-based metrics, check the **Outliers** box to display outlier commits as empty circles.

## How do I view activity data?

The Work log provides a high-level overview of weekly activities to help you spot patterns and trends in your users’ activity. It also offers a detailed view of daily activities to help you better understand how an engineer moves throughout their day.

### View weekly activity data

To view weekly activity data, filter by user to see individuals and their activity. Hover over an activity node in the swimlane for an overview of that activity.

![Work log activity node hover state.](media://4a539839-5a68-4df5-91f6-4df5149c5730)

Click the activity node to open more details for that activity.

Code commit and Merge commit activity details include the total lines of code affected, [Commit complexity](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FD/pages/1802043757), and the types of work included in the commit.

![Work log pin drawer including details about a code commit.](media://653f7ee5-2417-43f2-b1e2-2580a9020b6d)

PR activity, PR comment, and ticket activity details include additional information such as PR and ticket status, recent activity, date created, and [Time to first comment](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FD/pages/1801945431). The PR and ticket overviews provide additional PR details.

![Work log pin drawer including details about a PR comment.](media://d733ba38-4ee2-48e5-bc0c-9adc80e6e223)

> ℹ️ Flow determines PR size by the PR’s total lines of code. Small PRs have fewer than 13 lines of code. Medium PRs have fewer than 151 lines of code. Large PRs have more than 151 lines of code.

To take a deeper look into workflows, click additional activity nodes to open them as new tabs in the details window. Click the **X** in the upper right corner or close each tab individually to exit the detail view.

### View daily activity for a user

After viewing data across teams, move to the daily view for a deeper look at an engineer's work for a specific day. Daily view helps you understand your engineers’ work without interrupting their focus. Use this view to spot patterns and understand how your engineers typically move through their day.

To view data for a specific day:

1. Find the team, user, or repo you want to view.
2. Hover over the small triangle in the lower right corner until you see a calendar icon.
3. Click the calendar icon.

Use the Weekly view for an overview of weekly activities. Click a day to view details in Daily activity and All activity. 

![Work log weekly view, with one day highlighted.](media://01b7a13a-402b-48cf-b552-9b8d133d91d3)

*Daily activity* shows activity throughout the selected day. Scroll to zoom in for an hourly view of the day’s activity. Click an activity node to view it in the *All activity* timeline.

![Work log daily activity view.](media://72ea3e63-16a7-43b0-a30a-0f2ee2ff5bb4)

*All activity* provides more details about an activity, such as ticket title, ticket number, and comments. Click an activity in All activity to view the comments.

> ℹ️ Activity size is scaled vertically instead of horizontally in this view, and activities may overlap each other until you zoom in. A white line around activity nodes indicates overlapping activities. Zoom in to view an hourly breakdown of those overlapping activities.