Managing information about document-related activities
A facility for managing information about document-related activities is described. In some cases, the facility uses particular kinds of structures to represent, in a document graph, document-related activities performed by particular users. In some cases, the facility uses these structures to enable one user to subscribe to the document-related activities performed by another user. In some cases, the facility uses these structures to aggregate document-related activities performed by users in a group of users, such as by aggregating topics that are addressed by documents that are the subject of these document-related activities. In some cases, the facility uses particular kinds of structures to represent, in a document graph, tasks that certain users either can help with or need help with. In some cases, the facility uses these structures to match users that can help with a task with users that need help with a task.
1. A method in a computing system for reporting on user activity, the method comprising:
receiving a request for a report, the request identifying a group of users and a time range;
in response to receiving the request,
for each user of the group of users, identifying, with a processor, one or more documents interacted with by the user during the identified time range;
for each of the identified one or more documents, determining, with an automatic natural language understanding technique, with the processor, one or more topics to which the document is addressed;
determining, with the processor, one or more unique combinations of a user of the group of users and a topic of the determined one or more topics that are addressed in each of the identified one or more documents;
determining, with the processor, for each unique topic of the determined one or more topics, a number of users of the group of users who interacted with a document addressed to the unique topic based on a number of the one or more unique combinations;
generating, with the processor, the report, wherein the report includes, for at least two unique topics included in the determined one or more unique topics, the number of users of the group of users who interacted with a document addressed to each of the at least two unique topics;
receiving a first user input selecting a visual indication of a unique topic included in the generated report; and
in response to receiving the first user input, displaying, via a graphical user interface, a visual indication of one or more documents addressed to the unique topic.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising storing the generated report.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying the generated report.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving second user input selecting a displayed visual indication of a distinguished document; and
in response to receiving the second user input, causing to be displayed at least a portion of the contents of the distinguished document.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the received request identifies a group of users by specifying a group name, specifying user attributes required for membership in the group, or specifying a user-selected region of an organizational chart.