Add timestamps to chat
It's useful to know when people commented, or how much time since the last comment.
Adminjasoncohen
(Admin, Code Collaborator)
shared this idea
Timestamps on General Chat is now available in our 7.0 beta release. We will implement chat in the diff viewer for GA. Please see the release notification thread of the CodeCollaborator Admin forum on our website for information on how to register to participate in the open beta program. The SmartBear forums are located here: http://smartbear.com/forums/
18 comments
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This feature is now available in our 7.0 beta for the General Chat section. We will add the similar look and feel to the diff viewer in a later refresh of the beta release.
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Say Soukamneuth
commented
Just display local time for less cluttering. If you want detail date & time then there should be a button that can be selected and see details on date & time stamp.
For me, just itemize the chat or comments will good to start in waiting for this date & time stamp to get implemented.
I saw that this request has been here for 2-3 years. It's unacceptable.
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David Johns
commented
This was requested again in case 58548.
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Mark Risman
commented
Please do this. This would be a handy feature!
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Brian Duguid
commented
I'd like to see this too. My suggestion would be showing it as a hover-over affect.
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alsxzxz
commented
GOOGLE! Make timestamp in google CHAT! Please!
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This was requested again in Case 54588.
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gsitzmann commented
Any update on this request? It has been opened for awhile now and has a fair number of votes and I just got another request from our internal customers asking for this capability to get timestamps.
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bill selig
commented
I think this would be useful at times, but I could also see it being clutter. Thus, it would be nice to be able to turn this on/off via some control. Also, having the info show up as the viewer's local time would be good, though I'm sure that complicates things.
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Admingsporar
(Admin, Code Collaborator)
commented
One additional consideration: it would be nice to have an option for including the comment timestamps in reports.
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Johann Moro
commented
In general there is a need to have a better history on what happens in a review
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Chuddles
commented
Perhaps you could toggle whether timestamps are visible/invisible through an option in the Options dropdown menu above the main pane. It would be nice to know when people added their comments/defects, but it could become cluttered and you may want to hide the details.
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quichycarrie commented
I also agree with the idea to provide a user option to hide the timestamps to avoid clutter.
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Garen
commented
I like the idea of having all the timestamp data available as a left-hand column, that's perhaps not visible by default.
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patton
commented
It would be better if people from different time-zone have different view of timestamp. For example, if one participant in London posts a comment at 8am, another participant in Beijing would see the timestamp of the comment shown as 4pm
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Garen
commented
If there was an unobtrusive way to store/display the timestamp info that'd be nice. Maybe a tooltip? Or a button, that when pressed, pops out a new column that prefixes everyones messages with a timestamp? As a moderator I would like to have that information, it could help me see that there's someone lagging behind. In which case I could poke them, assign someone else to the review, etc.
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Also I like how if the comments happen in the same day it's just a time, otherwise it includes the date as well. Less clutter. We'd use the user's local timezone to determine "same day." Or maybe just if the lull is a really long period of time?
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My idea for this is to be similar to GMail's chat. Specifically, if a segment of chat happens in roughly the same period of time, don't timestamp each individual comment (too noisy, not helpful). But if there's a lull (or for the first comment), add a timestamp before the next comment.
