User Activity Form

Use the User Activity form to see information about Vision users who are currently logged on. You can also review server data, send email messages to all active users, and enable or disable all logins.

Location

To display the form, complete the following step:

From the VisionNavigation menu, click Utilities > User Activity.

Contents

Toolbar Options

Field Description
Refresh Click this option to update the information on the User Activity grid.
Actions To send an email message to logged in users for the day, click Actions > Email Logged In Users. By default, logged in users will be included in the BCC field on the Send Email dialog box. You can add other users on the To or CC fields.

To disable all users' logins, click Actions > Disable user logins. When all logins are disabled, users with an Admin Security role can still log on to Vision.

To enable all users' logins, click Actions > Enable user logins.

Purge Click this button to delete all user activity logs for a specific date range. Clicking this button opens the Purge User Activity dialog box, on which you select a start date and an end date using the Start and End date fields. Any user activity logs found within the selected date range will be deleted. Click OK to continue or click Cancel to close the Purge User Activity dialog box without purging any user activity log.

If you click OK, a confirmation message displays. Click Yes to continue deleting the user activity logs, or click No to return to the Purge User Activity dialog box.

Save To save your changes, click Save.
Help To display online help for the User Activity function, click Help.

Grid

Field Description
User Activity Grid Drop-down Click the drop-down arrow on a grid header to complete any of the following actions:
  • To print grid data, click Print. When the Print Preview form displays, click File > Print to send the grid data to your default printer.
  • To export grid data to an Excel spreadsheet, click Export to Excel. When Microsoft Excel opens, use its features to modify, print, or email the data, or to save the spreadsheet file locally.
  • To turn on grouping for a grid, click Enable Grouping. When a field displays with the instruction: "Drag a column header here to group by that column," drag and drop column headers into this field, in the sequence that you want them to display.

Not all options are available on all grids.

Delete To remove entries that display in the grid, select the entry and click Delete.
Name This field displays the user's employee name.
User

This field displays the employee's username. Usernames are used to identify a user or group of users throughout the Vision database.

Usernames may contain mixed case characters or spaces as well as a period. The username is the name that is stored in the Vision User Table and that the Vision role to which it is linked.

Application This field displays the application name, such as ProjectPlan or UserActivity. This field is not visible if the Log User Activity option is selected on the Audit tab on Configuration > General > System Settings.
Last Activity This field displays the date and time of the user's last activity. This field is not visible if the Log User Activity option is selected on the Audit tab on Configuration > General > System Settings.
Log In This field displays the time that the user logged on. This field is only visible if the Log User Activity option is selected on the Audit tab on Configuration > General > System Settings.
Log Out This field displays the time that the user logged out. This field is only visible if the Log User Activity option is selected on the Audit tab on Configuration > General > System Settings.
Process Server This field is selected if the user activity is a scheduled task that runs on the process server. However, once the task that ran on the process server is complete, the log is automatically purged.

User Activity Fields

Field Description
Login Time This field displays the login time of the user selected in the User Activity grid.
Last Activity This field displays the last activity of the user selected in the User Activity grid. This field is not visible if the Log User Activity option is selected on the Audit tab on the General System Setting on Configuration.
Log Out This field displays the time that the user logged out. This field is only visible if the Log User Activity option is selected on the Audit tab on the General System Setting on Configuration.
Description This field displays the description of the last activity of the user selected in the User Activity grid.
Application Server This field displays the name of the application server.
Queue Name This field displays the queue name from which the process was submitted.
Process ID This field displays the process ID.
Thread ID This field displays the thread ID.