Every activity has exactly one activity type. Think of the activity type as a schema for each activity that controls how it is displayed and other metadata about it. Orbit supports a handful of types scoped to your workspace that you can see by calling the /:workspace_id/activity_types endpoint.
Activity Type properties
{
"id": "ZmsBAQ",
"type": "activity_type",
"attributes": {
"source": "github",
"key": "issues:opened",
"name": "Opened an issue",
"short_name": "Issue opened",
"weight": "1.0"
}
}
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
source | string | The source of the activity type, e.g. github, twitter,discourse, etc. |
key | string | The key that will be used by APIs to refer to this activity type. Must be unique. |
name | string | The full name of the activity type. |
short_name | string | A short name describing the activity type, for use in charts, for example. |
weight | float | The weight score of the activity. |