Deck Activity overview no longer working

[mkrecek234]

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Describe the bug
Since the recent updates, especially on Nextcloud 31, Deck no longer show the overall activities of a Deck anymore. Show single-deck-card activity history works, as well as going to the Global Nextcloud Activities. However, being in a specific Deck and opening the right panel does not show any activitiy.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to Deck, select an existing Deck where activities were done in the past
2. Click on upper right icon to open the right-sided panel, click on "Activity"
3. The list is empty, even though activities were performed

Expected behavior
Show all activities of that specific deck, as it was before

Screenshots

Client details:

• OS: mac
• Browser Safari
• Version 15
• Device: mac

Details

Operating system:
Ubuntu 20.04
Web server:
Apache
Database:
MySQL
PHP version:
8.3
Nextcloud version: (see Nextcloud admin page)
31.0.2
Where did you install Nextcloud from:
Download
Signing status:
OK

• activity: 4.0.0
• admin_audit: 1.21.0
• app_api: 5.0.2
• appointments: 2.4.1
• bruteforcesettings: 4.0.0
• calendar: 5.2.0
• circles: 31.0.0
• cloud_federation_api: 1.14.0
• collectives: 2.16.1
• comments: 1.21.0
• contacts: 7.0.4
• contactsinteraction: 1.12.0
• cospend: 3.0.11
• dashboard: 7.11.0
• dav: 1.33.0
• deck: 1.15.0
• external: 6.0.2
• federatedfilesharing: 1.21.0
• federation: 1.21.0
• files: 2.3.1
• files_downloadlimit: 4.0.0
• files_linkeditor: 1.1.22
• files_mindmap: 0.0.33
• files_pdfviewer: 4.0.0
• files_reminders: 1.4.0
• files_sharing: 1.23.1
• files_trashbin: 1.21.0
• files_versions: 1.24.0
• firstrunwizard: 4.0.0
• logreader: 4.0.0
• lookup_server_connector: 1.19.0
• news: 25.3.1
• nextcloud_announcements: 3.0.0
• notifications: 4.0.0
• oauth2: 1.19.1
• password_policy: 3.0.0
• polls: 8.0.0-alpha8
• privacy: 3.0.0
• profile: 1.0.0
• provisioning_api: 1.21.0
• recommendations: 4.0.0
• related_resources: 2.0.0
• richdocuments: 8.6.3
• serverinfo: 3.0.0
• settings: 1.14.0
• sharebymail: 1.21.0
• side_menu: 4.1.1
• sociallogin: 5.9.2
• spreed: 21.0.1
• support: 3.0.0
• survey_client: 3.0.0
• systemtags: 1.21.1
• text: 5.0.0
• theming: 2.6.1
• twofactor_backupcodes: 1.20.0
• twofactor_totp: 13.0.0-dev.0
• updatenotification: 1.21.0
• user_status: 1.11.0
• viewer: 4.0.0
• weather_status: 1.11.0
• webhook_listeners: 1.2.0
• workflowengine: 2.13.0
  Disabled:
• assistant: 2.4.0 (installed 2.4.0)
• backup: 1.4.0 (installed 1.4.0)
• encryption: 2.19.0
• extract: 1.3.6 (installed 1.3.6)
• files_automatedtagging: 2.0.0 (installed 2.0.0)
• files_external: 1.23.0
• files_rightclick: 0.15.1 (installed 1.6.0)
• files_trackdownloads: 1.11.0
• flow_notifications: 2.0.0 (installed 2.0.0)
• integration_alephalpha: 1.0.6 (installed 1.0.6)
• integration_deepl: 1.3.1 (installed 1.3.1)
• mail: 4.3.2 (installed 4.3.2)
• notes: 4.11.0 (installed 4.11.0)
• photos: 4.0.0-dev.1 (installed 2.2.0)
• quota_warning: 1.21.0 (installed 1.21.0)
• suspicious_login: 9.0.1
• talk_matterbridge: 1.31.1026000 (installed 1.31.1026000)
• twofactor_nextcloud_notification: 5.0.0
• user_ldap: 1.22.0
• vdirsyncerui: 0.0.18 (installed 0.0.18)
• whiteboard: 1.0.5 (installed 1.0.5)
• workflow_pdf_converter: 2.0.0 (installed 2.0.0)
• workflow_script: 2.0.0 (installed 2.0.0)

**Nextcloud configuration:**

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"system": {
"instanceid": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
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"secret": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
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"cloud.habelschwerdt.de"
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"overwrite.cli.url": "https://cloud.habelschwerdt.de",
"htaccess.RewriteBase": "/",
"dbname": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
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"dbport": "",
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"mail_smtpport": "25",
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"memcache.locking": "\OC\Memcache\Redis",
"memcache.local": "\OC\Memcache\Redis",
"memcache.distributed": "\OC\Memcache\Redis",
"redis": {
"host": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"port": "6379",
"password": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"dbindex": 0,
"timeout": 0
},
"default_phone_region": "DE",
"updater.release.channel": "stable",
"theme": "",
"loglevel": 0,
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"files_linkeditor",
"polls",
"extract",
"appointments",
"apporder",
"talk_matterbridge",
"integration_whiteboard",
"news",
"approval",
"files_trackdownloads",
"quota_warning",
"vdirsyncerui",
"pdfannotate"
],
"maintenance": false,
"maintenance_window_start": 1,
"mail_smtpauth": 1,
"mail_smtpauthtype": "LOGIN",
"mail_smtpname": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"mail_smtppassword": "REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE",
"remember_login_cookie_lifetime": 1296000,
"session_keepalive": true,
"session_lifetime": 259200,
"auto_logout": false
}
}

**Are you using an external user-backend, if yes which one:** LDAP/ActiveDirectory/Webdav/...
no
</details>

<details>
<summary>Logs</summary>

#### Nextcloud log (data/nextcloud.log)

nothing on deck in the log

[grnd-alt]

Hi @mkrecek234, thanks for reporting the issue. I was able to reproduce it.

It seems like a sole UI bug, as the network request is still done and has all the activities in the response. I've not seen any suspicious error messages in the browser though.

[mkrecek234]

@grnd-alt Any chance for a solution of this annoying little bug after 2 months? Thx!

[odobrev]

There still seems to be no fix for this bug so I will share my personnal workaround solution :

1. Install Thunderbird
2. Enable RSS feed in your Nextcloud activity app
3. Connect to your RSS feed in Thunderbird
4. Create a sub-folder named "Deck"
5. Add one filter rule that does trigger on reception and periodically will find the keyword "deck" in a custom header named "Content-Base". Set the action to move content to your "Deck" sub-folder
6. (Optional) Create a filter rule that does trigger on reception and periodically that will find every message that does not contain the word "deck" and set the action to delete.

This way you can get your Deck Activity as messages (the same way as mails) and handle read statuses and markers.
You can create subrules that will sort by your Deck name if you want more precision.

It's still a fastidious workaround for a small UI bug that sadly has not been fixed in 2 months.
I hope that Deck App will not been abandonned like Notes or at least will have a decent replacement such as Collectives (even though it's missing a mobile app).

[mkrecek234]

@grnd-alt Still not fixed in today's update of Nextcloud deck app...

[grnd-alt]

@mkrecek234 thanks for the ping, seems like we missed the failed backport. Backport now in: #7148