ActivityLog on Polymorphic Relationships

[paulprinke]

ActivityLog has been working great in our application, however, we just introduced some polymorphic relationships... I have made sure that the pivot tables have a in column in an attempt to follow the spatie documentation on pivot relations. I have been unable to get the updateExistingPivot to trigger the events required trigger the activity logger functions. I have resorted to update the relational table directly with the associated data. (Eloquent $model->save() on the cross reference table).

This is an example of what is working on the tables, but not creating an ActivityLog records.

$profile->skills()->updateExistingPivot(
    $skill_id,
    ['status' => $status]
);

This is the workaround that is working both at table level AND ActivityLog records.

$xref = SkillsPolyXref::where('skill_id', $skill_id)->where('parent_id', $profile_id)->where('parent_type', 'App\Models\Profile')->first();
$xref->status = $status;
$xref->save();