[The Hub] Log of Hub settings changes with open notes field

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As an agency manager with 100 sites, I would like to simplify our support processes and team collaboration with a Site-level log that shows a list of settings changes on the Overview tab of the Hub.

For each setting change in the Hub the log would show:
– Area
– Setting
– From value
– To value
– Optional notes field

The Notes field is critical to this request. This is where one of my technicians would be able to add a description of why the change was made, or reference a help desk ticket number or change ID.

With this data, it would be trivial for a future support action to review the change log, identify any correlation in settings changes, understand the “health of the patient”, etc.

An example change that is really critical for us to track and have visibility to in the future is a Hosting Caching change. A change to Hosting > Tools > Static Server Cache would be extremely important to know about for future support.

Thank you for your consideration of features to support agencies, it’s one of the reasons we enjoy wpmudev

  • Pawel Pela
    • Ex Staff

    Hello Butterflyly !

    Hope you’re having a great day!

    Thank you for your consideration of features to support agencies, it’s one of the reasons we enjoy wpmudev

    Thank you as well – we appreciate your feedback a lot!

    This sounds very interesting and I think we already have something like this planned, though I’ve not heard about the notes field being considered. I will create a feature request task for this option as it sounds like a great thing to have as an agency!

    Kind regards,
    Pawel

    • Tony G
      • Mr. LetsFixTheWorld

      There have been many requests for a notes field. There should be a notepad with timestamped entries for all sites, individual sites, site tags, and selected sites – consider CPTs. This way a change made across many sites won’t require a manual duplication of notes for a hundred different sites.

  • Butterflyly
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Here’s another example of where this would be incredibly useful right now:
    1) We have a website that is having consistent functional problems every few days
    2) The trouble seems to be associated with a group of plugins, when one of the set is updated, there always seems to end up being a problem
    3) -7 days we turned off auto-updates for this group of plugins
    4) -1 days it was noticed by our monthly process that some plugins were not automatically being updated and automate was updated to auto-update again
    5) Today the site has the same functional problem as before

    Because this is a one-off site and we’re in the middle of troubleshooting and we don’t have another way to communicate about these things internally, my team tripped over themselves.

    A notes field at the site level could have communicated this to the next tech coming to work on this site.

    Thanks so much for considering this feature.