This article is for Cloud.
Tempo Activity Feed is designed to assist you in capturing your time spent in many sources within your work ecosystem. Its purpose is to track your activity in other systems and create worklog suggestions in Tempo for later when you want to log your time.
In the background, Tempo is keeping track of all of your work throughout the day so that when you’re ready to log your time, you have intuitive suggestions from the platforms you recently worked on.
Understanding How the Activity Feed Works
Signals and Strengths
Tempo listens for your activity (signals) on platforms you’ve connected via Activity Feed. The more active you are, the more signals Tempo is gathering. The more active you are in a specific issue or the type of actions you perform (ex. accepting a meeting request) will determine the strength of a signal.
These signals are then assessed by Tempo and a Tempo Card suggestion is placed in your My Work Calendar or List Views for a specific time period. Tempo will only ever suggest one activity per time period.
For example, based on your efforts in Jira, Activity Feed may place a suggested Activity Card in your My Work calendar for a 1-hour period. You may have worked on several issues, but based on your activity, Tempo has determined this Jira issue should be presented based on its signal strength.
If the suggestion from the Activity Feed does not reflect the time you want to log, you can delete the suggestion. Activity Feed may provide another issue to log in that period of time or you may even see two issues, one each for the strongest signals for two consecutive 30-minute periods - activities with the strongest signals for their smaller respective time periods.
Activity Feed will remove any suggestion for a period of time if work is logged for that period. Also, there will never be multiple suggestions for the same time period.
Deleting a worklog, plan etc., will prompt Tempo to place a suggestion in that period if there is an activity signal available that corresponds to the free time. If no activity signals are available for the time period, the space will remain free.
This process allows Tempo to continually interpret and analyze signals to provide you with its best recommendations to assist you in logging your time.
The Ranking of Feeds into Tempo
While similar signals from one activity feed source are weighted equally, there is a ranking of platform sources that Tempo connects with. These rankings assist in determining what kinds of activities will be presented in your My Work. Also, it is important to understand that activities created inside Tempo (worklogs and plans) will always displace suggestions from external feeds (calendars, Jira etc.) For example, worklogs will displace plans. Plans will supersede calendar events which in turn take precedence over Jira activities.
Managing Your Activity Feed
Depending on how active you were and how you interacted with different systems, there can be a large volume of activity feed information for you to process. Sometimes, the activity feed can seem (and look) like information overload.
It doesn’t have to be that way. There are some effective methods you can use to manage your activity feed that will help you get the most out of this feature.
Review these suggestions from the Tempo Help Center to assist in configuring and managing the Activity Feed to suit your needs.