The History tab on a task's page shows everything that happened to that task in one timeline: who it was allocated to and how, when a Vendor accepted or rejected it, every status change, budget changes, due date and instruction edits, and invoicing. Each entry shows who made the change, when, and the value before and after it. Use it to answer questions like "who moved this deadline?", "why did this budget go up?", or "was this task assigned by hand or by Auto Task Placement?" without asking around.

Who is this for? Account Admins and Project Managers who manage tasks, and Vendors who want to check the history of a task assigned to them. See All about wxrks roles for what each role can do.

Permissions:

Both permissions are on the user's Permissions page, under People > Users > [User] > Permissions. For what each one controls, see the wxrks Permissions Reference.

wxrks writes an entry every time one of these things changes on a task. The Filter column is the option you pick in the type filter to show only that group.

ℹ️ Note: History starts from the day the feature was released. Changes made to a task before then aren't in the timeline.

ℹ️ Note: wxrks only writes an entry when a value actually changes. A budget recalculation that lands on the same amount, or an instructions edit that only changes formatting (bold, lists, line breaks), adds nothing to the timeline.

The task's page opens on the History tab. If you're already on the task's page (for example, after choosing Details in the same menu), click the History tab between Logfiles and Custom Fields.

💡 Tip: The address bar ends in #history while the tab is open. Copy the link to send a colleague straight to this task's timeline.

ℹ️ Note: A Vendor sees the History only of tasks currently assigned to them. If the assignment is revoked, the Vendor can no longer open that task's History.

Entries are grouped by day, newest first, with the time of each change on the left.

Each entry starts with what happened (for example Budget changed or Accepted), next to an icon whose color matches its filter group. Removals and rejections are shown in red, deliveries in green. After that, an entry can show:

Entries that come from an assignment action (allocations, acceptances, rejections, and the budget set up when a task is allocated) carry an origin badge:

A Vendor says the budget on their task dropped and asks why. Open the task's History and choose Budget & billing in the filter:

Both lines belong to the same entry, so the amount went down because the net word count went down, not because the Vendor's rate changed. The byline reads by wxrks because the recalculation ran in the background. To see what changed the word count, switch back to All types and check the entries just before it, then the task's Logfiles tab.

Two things decide what a user sees in the History tab: whether they can open the task at all, and whether they can see money.

Opening the task. Account Admins can open any task's History. Other users with Task Retrieve can open it for tasks in the Organizational Units where they have that permission. Vendors can open it only for tasks currently assigned to them.

Seeing money. Users without Payables List don't see Budget changed, Invoiced, or Not invoiced entries at all, and amounts are removed from any other entry that carries one. The record count leaves them out too, so the same task can show 7 records to an Account Admin and 5 records to a Project Manager. Account Admins and the Vendor assigned to the task always see them.

⚠️ Common misconfiguration: A Project Manager reports that the Budget & billing filter is always empty, or that budget changes are "missing" from History. The entries exist; the Project Manager can't see them. If they need them, an Account Admin grants Payables List on People > Users > [User] > Permissions. Keep in mind that Payables List also opens the payables list for that user, not just the History entries.