Activity Log

The Activity Log allows you to view and audit a detailed history of key actions within your 7shifts account. Track important updates like availability adjustments, schedule publishing, announcements, and shift pool changes (excluding Shift Trades).

Things to know

• The Activity Log is only available on the web app. 
• Access to the Activity Log may require a plan upgrade. To check your current plan features, go to Settings > Plans.
• The Activity Log displays events across all locations in your account.
• Shift Trades do not appear in the Activity Log. Only Shift Pool approvals and rejections are tracked.
• If a schedule is copied from a previous week or filled from a template, the Activity Log records the first publishing event as "Re-published."

How to access the Activity Log

1. Go to your Dashboard and scroll down to the Activity Log section.
   
   Or, hover over your profile photo in the top right of the screen, then select Activity Log.
   
   
2. Browse or search your log using the event types below to find what you need.
   • Availability - approvals, deletions, and edits.
   • Schedule - publishes, clears, and re-publishes.
   • Announcements.
   • Shift Pool - approvals and rejections.
3. Use the filters to narrow your results by month, audit type, or employee.
   
   
4. Select Show Details on any event to expand more information. Select Hide Details to collapse it.

Audit type examples

Details for each audit type are shown below: 

Announcements

The Announcements log records every announcement posted in your account, including the message content, who sent it, who received it, and the location it pertains to. 

Availability

The Availability log captures all availability actions taken in your account, including submissions, approvals, edits, and deletions.

Schedule

The Schedule log tracks all publish, clear, and re-publish actions. Expanding an event shows a full breakdown of what was published and who was notified.

Expanding a schedule publish event shows the following details: 

• Week of — the date range for the published week, for example "April 5–11, 2026."
• Days — shows "Full week" if all 7 days were published, or lists the specific dates if fewer days were included.
• Changes published — the total number of shift changes included in the publish action.
• Notified — the notification option that was selected, for example "Only those with changes."
• Location — the name of the location the schedule was published for.
• Department — the department included in the publish action.
• Roles — shows "All roles" if the full department was published, or lists the specific role names if only some roles were included, for example "Chef, Dishwasher, Expo."

Shift Pool

The Shift Pool log records when open shift requests were approved or rejected.