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I have some projects that are still used, but have not been updated for over a year.
The activity window should load last xx items than between specific dates.

In typical SQL this could be built with

select * from
(
    select date, type, url, subject, short_description, author
    from issues
    where projectid=[xyz] and date < [startdate]
    order by date desc
    limit 100
  union 
    select date, type, url, subject, short_description, author
    from changesets
    where projectid=[xyz] and date < [startdate]
    order by date desc
    limit 100
) 
order by date desc
limit 100

This query will read 100 last items from two activity types : issues and changesets.
Then, it will merge them, resort them, and display 100 of those.

It is somewhat wastefull (in theory, as each subquery reads more than it needs to), but with semi dead projects this is best visual (as opposed to having user keep pressing previous months just to see something, or anything).

Please forgive me for lack proper table/column names, am away from my redmine installation.

Kind regards

I agree that the current behaviour is not designed for inactive projects but it's clearly not a defect.

Jean-Philippe Lang wrote:

I agree that the current behaviour is not designed for inactive projects but it's clearly not a defect.

Not at all "inactive", some projects has low activity but aren't inactive, in this case it's a defect (people are desoriented).

This is still important, I have some projects with low activity and "Last activity" doesn't show events that happens 2 months ago.

+1

Thanks for great patches
I don't want to repeat the blank history.

Note.

If the following patches have been applied, only two files need to be changed.
https://www.redmine.org/issues/23954#note-11

controllers/activities_controller.rb
app/views/activities/index.html.erb