show user's contributions

I would like to show a list of user's contributions, a list showing everything they've edited. Is there a way to find or create such a list in Foswiki? Similar to the history of a page, but then for the user.

What it may like:

Contributions for user Lieven:

Topic	Date	revision	Current revision
WebHome	04 Aug 2019 - 12:30	17	17
GoodMorning	23 Apr 2019 - 05:59	8	25
WhatIsThis	17 Nov 2018 - 11:58	3	7

I guess it can be created with a search, but then:

• how can I avoid getting results where the user name is part of a page?
• how can I also get results from previous revisions?

In addition, I do not wish to create a topic for each user. What is the trick then? Some kind of template, maybe?

-- Lieven - 16 May 2020

Lieven - You might check out ContributorsPlugin as it's designed specifically to do the kind of reports you're wanting. I should warn you that in my experience it can be extremely resource intensive generating a report as it digs back though topic histories.

Alternatively, I have done similar things using a custom shell script that digs through the events.log and summarizes actions by user and topic and saves these in a file which I then parse for rendering reports. This is how I got around the server load to generating these reports on the fly.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 16 May 2020

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