# Weekly Activity

Show a weekly chart of incident and maintenance volume.

Source: https://statusdashboard.com/docs/status-dashboards/content/weekly-activity

Weekly Activity charts incident and maintenance volume across a seven-day strip. Visitors can move between weeks to spot busy days or look ahead for scheduled work.

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## What visitors see
The **Weekly Activity** module shows a **weekly activity strip** of event activity across a **seven-day week**. Visitors can move backward and forward to explore past weeks or look ahead at upcoming maintenance.

When enabled, a section titled **Weekly Activity** appears on your status dashboard. It includes:

* **One dot per day** (seven days per view)
* **Color-coded dots**:
  * **Red** — incidents only that day
  * **Blue** — maintenance only that day
  * **Split red/blue** — both incidents and maintenance that day (the split reflects each type's share of the count)
  * **Gray** — no events that day
* **Dot size** reflects how many events counted that day (larger = more activity)
* An **event count** under each dot when the day has activity
* **Previous week** and **Next week** buttons to change which seven days are shown
* A short date range label (for example, "7/4 – 7/10") for the current view
* When **all seven days in the current week have zero events**, a centered message appears below the section header: **"No events during this period."** The activity strip and week navigation remain visible so visitors can browse to other weeks.

Clicking a day dot opens a dedicated **day view** at `/events/YYYY-MM-DD` listing incidents and maintenance for that calendar day. Each event title links to its permalink at `/event/{id}` for full detail. If that day has no events, the day view shows **"No events on this date."**

The chart uses the **visitor's local time zone** to decide where one calendar day ends and the next begins.

## What gets counted
Only **published** events that affect **at least one component currently on this dashboard** are included.

See [Dashboard scope](/docs/status-dashboards/components#dashboard-scope) — removing components from this dashboard can remove past days and permalinks from the public timeline even though events remain in admin.

| Event type      | How a day gets a count                                                                                   |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Incident**    | Each day the incident was active counts once. A three-day incident adds one to each of those three days. |
| **Maintenance** | Same as incidents — each day the maintenance window overlaps counts once.                                |

Informational notices are **not** included in the Weekly Activity. Use the [Informational Notices](/docs/status-dashboards/content/informational-notices) module for current announcements.

If multiple events of the same type occur on one day, the count increases accordingly (for example, two incidents on Tuesday means Tuesday's dot is solid red and larger than a single-incident day).

## Navigating weeks
* Each view always shows **exactly seven days**.
* **Previous week** moves the window seven days earlier.
* **Next week** moves the window seven days later.

You cannot scroll arbitrarily far:

| Direction           | Limit                          |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------ |
| **Into the past**   | Up to **90 days** before today |
| **Into the future** | Up to **60 days** after today  |

When you reach a limit, the corresponding arrow is disabled. This keeps the chart focused on recent history and near-term planned work rather than years of data.

## Good to know — limits and corner cases
**Long-running incidents.** The chart is designed for typical status-page time horizons. An incident that stayed open for many months may not appear when browsing weeks from several months ago. For resolved events within the last 30 days, use [Event History](/docs/status-dashboards/content/event-history). For older resolved work within the past 90 days, browse weeks and day views here.

**Planned maintenance in future weeks.** Scheduled windows that fall within the next 60 days can appear when visitors click **Next week** into those dates — useful alongside [Planned Maintenance](/docs/status-dashboards/content/planned-maintenance).

**Weeks with no activity.** When every day in the visible week has zero events, visitors see **"No events during this period."** under the section header (above the activity strip). Individual days with zero events still appear as small gray dots so the week layout stays consistent and navigation remains clear.

**Day view for full detail.** The activity strip shows **how many** events touched each day. Click any day to open the day view with full event cards and permalinks. For ongoing activity, visitors can also use Active Incidents, Planned Maintenance, and Event History modules.

**Updates.** The chart loads when the page opens, refreshes in the background every 30 seconds while the visitor stays on the page, and updates again when they change weeks. Polling pauses when the browser tab is hidden and resumes when they return.

## When the section is hidden
If the module is turned off in the Content tab, the chart is never shown.

If the module is enabled, the chart **still appears even when all seven days have zero events**, so visitors can use the week navigation controls to browse other periods.

Weekly Activity is **off by default** on new dashboards. Enable the toggle in the Content tab when you want the weekly activity chart.