Activity log with card description

[joesch2]

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Describe the bug
After changing a card's description, the Activity app displays also the entire description (see screenshot).

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. edit card
2. close card
3. see activity-log

Expected behavior
In my opinion, it should only show the entry "xy updated the card's description" and not the entire content. This unnecessarily bloats the activity log.

Screenshots

Client details:

• OS: Win11
• Browser Firefox
• Version 138
• Device: desktop

Server details

Server configuration

Apache (fpm-fcgi)

Database:
mysql 10.11.10

PHP version:
8.3.14

Nextcloud version:
30.0.4
List of activated apps
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[putt1ck]

NB from our tests this is true for every comment added not just description edits i.e. every time a comment is added, 2 entries appear in the activity tab, one being the comment "user.name has commented on card blah blah (card.u.r.l, and above that an entry "user.name has added a description to card blah blah (card.u.r.l) in list bleh (card.u.r.l) on board bleh blah (board.u.r.l.) and the description in full, which hasn't changed since the version the line below but one, when someone else commented and so on ad nauseum

[putt1ck]

And having written the above comment have tried to narrow down when it starts - and it seems that the following is also true:

if you create a card and description and then add comments, just the comments appear in the activity tab; but after the next activity notification email is sent a "user has updated description" message is added; so if you only add comments because someone else has (and you got notified), it looks like it's for every comment, but actually it's the email notification

[joesch2]

Please excuse my description if it was inaccurate. I meant the entries in the Nextcloud activity log (not the card's own).

[putt1ck]

Essentially the same content in both, just less detail in the main activity log; so the same conditions seem to hold, adding a comment results (when the activity email notification job runs) in messages regarding the card's description

[putt1ck]

Moreover... Actually changing the description in our tests doesn't add an activity item, either in the card or the NC overview. Kinda hard to screenshot a "it didn't happen" event but I'm guessing the item will appear only after the email notification job runs. Waiting...