Use Backend › Activity to see every change to your backend’s setup, the threads that are still changing it, and what each change touches.

A thread changes the backend in its own copy of your app, so nothing changes for the people who use your app until you push it. For more about the backend, see How the backend works.

Recent changes

The Recent pushed changes list in Activity shows, newest first, every change to your backend’s setup that reached your app, such as changes to tables, sign-in, folders, secrets, and starter data. It doesn’t list changes to the records in your tables.

1. Open Backend and select Activity.
2. Under Recent pushed changes, read the rows. Each row names the change and the places that it touched, then who pushed it and on which day.
3. To see older changes, select Show older.

A secret that you add, replace, or remove in Secrets also has a row, labeled Secrets. These rows appear only for teammates whose role can see Secrets.

BackendMonthly budgets is changing in Add a budget screen and update net worth label

How the backend works

Recent pushed changes

Add a settings screen for currencyChanges profile fields

You · Today

Track recurring expensesChanges Transactions

Sam Lee · Today

Accounts, expenses, holdings, and budgets save between visitsSets up 4 tables and sign-in

You · Yesterday

Current threads with changes (not pushed) · 1

Add a budget screen and update net worth labelChanges Monthly budgets

You · Today

Unpushed changes

The Current threads with changes (not pushed) list in Activity shows the open threads whose backend changes aren’t in your app yet.

Each row names the thread and the places it changes, then who started the thread and the day of its last change. While a thread’s changes are on their way into your app, its row shows Pushing beside the title.

Open a change

A change’s page shows what one change does to your backend, place by place.

1. In Activity, select a row in either list.

2. Read the status beside the change’s name:

   Status	What it means
   Not pushed	The change is still only in its thread.
   Pushing	The thread is being pushed, and the change is on its way into your app.
   In your app	The change was pushed and is in your app.

3. Read each section of the page. Each section covers one thing that the change touches, such as a table, sign-in, a folder, secrets, or starter data. On a thing that already exists, each line shows a label for what happened to it: New, Changed, or Removed. The lines of a thing that the change adds have no label. For a way to sign in, the line shows On or Off.

4. To go to the thing in Backend, select View table or View beside its section’s heading.

5. For a change from a thread, select Open thread to go to the thread.

For a thread’s changes from inside the thread, see See what changed.

Activity

Add a budget screen and update net worth labelNot pushed

Open thread

You · last change today

Monthly budgetsView table

FieldTypeDetails

Rolls overNewYes / NoUnspent money carries into next month

Alert atNewNumberWarn when spending passes this amount

LimitChangedNumberNow required

Changes by table

When an open thread changes a table, People, or Files, a line under that place’s heading in Backend says so before anything is pushed. For example: “Changing in Thread 2 · 3 fields · View change”.

• When one thread changes the place, select View change to open its change page.
• When two threads change it, select either thread’s name to open its change, or select View changes to open Activity.
• When three or more threads change it, select See Activity.

In the Backend menu, a dot also marks each place that an open thread is changing.

Troubleshooting

• “Couldn’t read this change.”
• To push a thread’s changes, see Push.