# Activity Timeline (Lumen Halo): prompt.md (v1.0.0)

- id: `lumen-activity-timeline` · version 1.0.0 · component · pro (All-Access)
- category: Data
- build: Base UI (one set of files; its dependencies follow the build)
- install (this build): `npx shadcn@latest add @beautiful-ui-pro/lumen-activity-timeline`
- npm dependencies: none
- registry dependencies: utils, @beautiful-ui/lumen-avatar, @beautiful-ui/lumen-collapsible, https://beautiful-ui.dev/r/lumen-foundation.json
- docs: https://beautiful-ui.dev/components/lumen-activity-timeline
- The install command carries everything this item needs (files, CSS, tokens, npm and registry dependencies). Prefer it to copying source by hand.

Who did what, when, and what changed: a hairline rail of cells, unlit for routine events and lit by severity (critical glows), grouped by the viewer's own day, with details that open in place.

## Build it
- Stack: React 19 (`ref` is a plain prop), TypeScript, Tailwind CSS v4 utilities, a shadcn-initialised project with the `@/*` alias.
- Packages: none beyond React.
- Files: `components/ui/lumen/controls/activity-timeline.tsx`; shared code: `lib/beautiful-ui/core/timeline.ts`.
- Registry dependencies, installed with it automatically: shadcn `utils` (cn), `lumen-avatar`, `lumen-collapsible`, `lumen-foundation`.
- Builds: one set of files for both, but its dependencies come in Base UI and Radix builds. Install the one that matches the project (see Install): a free item's bare URL installs the Base UI build of it and its dependencies.
- Exports to keep: `ActivityTimeline`, `ActivityTimelineGroup`, `ActivityTimelineItem`, and every exported type.
- CSS: the install merges this item's rules (the registry `css` field) into your global stylesheet, in `@layer components`, and adds the lumen foundation (tokens, keyframes, motion levels) once. Nothing to import by hand.
- Re-running `add` (or `--overwrite`) re-applies those rules: put overrides in your own CSS, never in the installed rules.
- Tokens: retheme with the `--lumen-*` custom properties (`--lumen-accent`, `--lumen-accent-text`, `--lumen-bad`, `--lumen-bad-text`, `--lumen-focus`, `--lumen-good`, `--lumen-good-text`, `--lumen-hairline`, `--lumen-ink`, `--lumen-muted-ink`, `--lumen-series-1`, `--lumen-series-2`, `--lumen-series-3`, `--lumen-series-4`, `--lumen-series-5`, `--lumen-series-6`, `--lumen-warn`, `--lumen-warn-text`); this item's CSS also reads `--lumen-font-mono`, `--lumen-font-sans`, `--lumen-radius-k`. Never add Tailwind colour classes inside the component.

```tsx
import { ActivityTimeline } from "@/components/ui/lumen/controls/activity-timeline";
```

## Parts

| Part | data-slot | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| `ActivityTimeline` | — | Groups events by day and draws them. |
| `ActivityTimelineGroup` | — | One day. |
| `ActivityTimelineItem` | — | One event; expands when it has detail. |

## Sound
- Keep every `data-slot` and `data-sound` attribute: the sound layer reads them.
- Installing this item adds no audio. Nothing plays until the app mounts `GlassSoundProvider` once (install: `npx shadcn@latest add https://beautiful-ui.dev/r/glass-sound.json`, import from `@/components/beautiful-ui/glass-sound`); `GlassSoundToggle` is its mute control. Without a provider the audio engine never loads.

## Match the original
- Read `components/ui/lumen/controls/activity-timeline.tsx` as the reference implementation before changing or recreating anything, and match it: sizes, colours per theme, motion timings, copy and behaviour.
- If you deviate (a prop you can't honour, a style you changed, a dependency you swapped), say so in your reply, part by part.
- Keep the accessibility contract, the keyboard map and the motion levels listed below.

## Use it when
- activity timeline, activity feed, audit log, event history, changelog feed, customer activity, Lumen
- A record's history in a detail drawer
- An audit trail or incident log
- A customer's recent activity

### Not when
- Dense event analysis over time: use a chart
- Notifications that need action now: use Toast

## Mistakes
- Pass the viewer's time zone, or Today and Yesterday use the server's

## Usage

```tsx
import { ActivityTimeline } from "@/components/ui/lumen/controls/activity-timeline";
import { filterEvents } from "@/lib/beautiful-ui/core/timeline";

<ActivityTimeline events={filterEvents(events, { severity })} timeZone={workspace.timeZone} renderDetail={(e) => <EventDetail event={e} />} />
```

## Props

| Prop | Type | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| `events` | `ActivityEvent[]` |  | { id, at (ISO instant), title, actor?, change?: { from?, to }, severity?, tags? } |
| `timeZone` | `string` |  | The viewer's zone, so Today means today where they are. |
| `renderDetail` | `(event) => ReactNode` |  | Detail shown when a row is expanded. |
| `empty` | `ReactNode` | `"No activity yet."` | Shown with no events. |

Full docs: https://beautiful-ui.dev/components/lumen-activity-timeline

## Customising
- Colours: set the `--lumen-*` tokens on `:root`, or on a container with the `lumen-scope` class to retheme one area. Add the `lumen-inherit` class to follow your shadcn palette instead (`--chart-N`, `--destructive`).
- Dark mode follows the `.dark` class on an ancestor (the shadcn and next-themes convention).
- Update later by re-running the install with `--overwrite` (review the diff if you edited it). Changelog: https://beautiful-ui.dev/r/changelog.json

## Keyboard

| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| Enter / Space | Expands an event with detail |

## Motion inventory

| Interaction | What moves |
|---|---|
| Expand | Detail opens with the collapsible's height transition |

## Accessibility contract (preserve when editing)
- Each day is a labelled section with an ordered list
- Severity is a word as well as a colour
- Times are <time> elements with the full instant

## Install

```bash
npx shadcn@latest add @beautiful-ui-pro/lumen-activity-timeline
```

Pro item: needs the `@beautiful-ui-pro` registry in `components.json` and `BEAUTIFUL_UI_TOKEN` in `.env.local` (https://beautiful-ui.dev/account). Setup: https://beautiful-ui.dev/docs/pro. Your components.json `style` picks the build: radix-*, new-york and default get Radix, base-* gets Base UI.

## Credits
- Built on shadcn/ui (https://ui.shadcn.com)

The lumen foundation (the tokens listed above, keyframes and motion levels) installs once with the first component; its CSS is public at https://beautiful-ui.dev/r/lumen-foundation.json.