Adding items to the Activity View
When you add items to the Activity View, any temporal data that is associated with them can be represented as activity indicators on the item timeline. The activity indicators provide greater visibility of timings and sequences, making it easier to compare items.
About this task
Each item is represented as a row in the Activity View. The dates and times of sightings, meetings, interactions, and other events, are represented by activity indicators within each row.
By adding several items to the Activity View, you can see how relationships proceed and develop over time. In addition, patterns in the data can be identified.
Temporal data for chart items can be stored in several places, for example on the item itself and in cards, data records, and attributes. You can choose which properties are used to generate activity indicators. For example, your data might contain date and time information for a series of messages and also date of birth information for the people involved. You can choose to include only the date and time information from the messages and exclude the dates of birth.
You can choose to include properties on the items that you add to the Activity View and on their connected links. You can also include properties on any items that are connected to the added items and on their onward links. For example, you might choose to include properties for the onward links if your primary items are people who are connected to telephones. Relating the call information on the onward links to the people might be important to you.