Answers.Body: <p>The creation date of an activity is not, by default, stored in CiviCRM.  Depending on what you want to do, you can:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Create a custom field like you suggested, and write an extension that fills in the value on creation.</li>
  <li>Create a custom field, then define a MySQL trigger to fill in the date.  This is less portable, but higher-performance.</li>
  <li>You can enable binary logging (aka detailed logging) as described <a href="http://book.civicrm.org/user/current/advanced-configuration/logging/" rel="nofollow">here</a>, which will create <code>log_civicrm_activity</code>.  This is the easiest way to record the date - but doesn't give you a good way to expose this data through the UI.</li>
  </ul>
  
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Answers.Text: Many thanks Jon,
  
  I'll take this forward with my team.
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Body: <p>When adding a custom activity the current time is automatically shown and can be updated. Where people are adding past/ future activities, is the actual time the activtiy is submitted also recorded somewhere in CiviCRM?</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way of extracting this information?</p>
  
  <p>Or should I add an extra date field in the custom data- default set to know to record the submission date?</p>
  
Tags: <activity><dates>
Title: Is there a way of recording/exposing when an activity is added to CiviCRM?
ThreadText: # Is there a way of recording/exposing when an activity is added to CiviCRM?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-08-21)
  
  When adding a custom activity the current time is automatically shown and can be updated. Where people are adding past/ future activities, is the actual time the activtiy is submitted also recorded somewhere in CiviCRM?
  
  Is there a way of extracting this information?
  
  Or should I add an extra date field in the custom data- default set to know to record the submission date?
  
  **Tags:** activity, dates
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-08-22. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  The creation date of an activity is not, by default, stored in CiviCRM. Depending on what you want to do, you can:
  
  * Create a custom field like you suggested, and write an extension that fills in the value on creation.
  * Create a custom field, then define a MySQL trigger to fill in the date. This is less portable, but higher-performance.
  * You can enable binary logging (aka detailed logging) as described [here](http://book.civicrm.org/user/current/advanced-configuration/logging/), which will create `log_civicrm_activity`. This is the easiest way to record the date - but doesn't give you a good way to expose this data through the UI.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Many thanks Jon,  I'll take this forward with my team.  
  
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