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Understanding UsersOnline

7/20/2010 7:44 AM

Lindsay Miles

Joined: 5/23/2003

Posts: 236

Understanding UsersOnline

Excuse my ignorance here but I'm testing usersonline locally. ie: localhost... I login with the same user account 5 times in 5 different browsers.
The number of rows in the db for that user never increases.

Is there something I'm not "getting"? where am I "missing the boat"?

Do I need to do this on my test server and login from 5 different machines? Surely not.
I'm led to believe that if a user simply closes their browser without logging off, their UsersOnline record will remain for a period.
If they login again right after closing their last browser, surely a new record for that user should be added?

Or does the module check of that user is already online and not add a new record?

Thanks

7/20/2010 7:56 AM

Lindsay Miles

Joined: 5/23/2003

Posts: 236

Re: Understanding UsersOnline

OK, so if the user is logging into the same portal and is directed the the same tab, that record cannot be repeated in the table...
Unless the creationdate is made to be part of the key, which I doubt can/should be done... :-)

So, any way to see how many times the same login is used to login a concurrent number of times?

Thanks

7/20/2010 9:29 AM

Sebastian Leupold

www.dnnwerk.de
Joined: 3/8/2004

Posts: 46212

Re: Understanding UsersOnline

Lindsay, UsersOnline module simply displays content of OnlineUsers Table, which is maintained by DNN core framework. there is some latency (AFAIK 20 minutes by default), before an entry is deleted and gets re-added on next visit.

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7/20/2010 10:13 AM

Lindsay Miles

Joined: 5/23/2003

Posts: 236

Re: Understanding UsersOnline Modified By Lindsay Miles on 7/20/2010 10:15:56 AM

Thanks Sebastia

I was led to believe the UsersOnline module added a record each time a user logged in.

Now, upon looking at the UsersOnline table, I see that is not possible as another field would be needed in the table.

So, this might be something for the core team to consider OR those responsible for that module.

Add another field - UsersOnlineID so that multiple records of a user logging in could be kept. It won't expand the data by that much AND it'd allow for a mechanism to restrict number of concurrent logins to 3 or 5 et

Here's a suggestion I got from DataSprings only to realize there are no multiple records of a user being online...BUT the "idea" is there and could work for some AND optionally implemented:

"First step is to enable DNN’s Users Online. Then you’ll want to use Dynamic Login to execute a SQL query to check in Users Online for simultaneous logins with the same credential. Now here’s the tricky part. Because DNN’s Users Online cycles every 20 minutes or so, we do not recommend the SQL to limit it to only 1 because you will have many situations where the user logsout and/or closes browser and then decides to log back in. In this case, because Users Online hasn’t cycled out yet, this legitimate user will not be allowed to log in again. Therefore, we recommend to set the simultaneous login counter to 3 or

Right now, I can do this but the counter can only be 1, thus I WOULD be annoying a few users!

Thanks

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