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Current Activity

Access this form with Administrative user rights using System>Current Activity.

Use this form to view and/or print a log of current system activity.

Whenever users are in the system, records are written to the current activity log indicating the program or table is in use so that write conflicts do not occur. When the user changes activities, the activity log changes accordingly. You can look at the current activity and see which users are currently in the system and what jobs they are doing.

 

Filters: The filter is for display purposes only; it simply allows you to limit which items are displayed in the Available Items table.

  • Available Filter, Selected Filter: Select an item in the Available Filter column, and click the Mover ( > ) to move it to the Selected Filter column. Once an item is in the Selected Filter column, set up its filtering criteria. Then, the table is limited to the data that falls within the designated filter criteria. Your choices for filtering items are: Submit Time, User ID, Workstation, Activity, and Database Name.
  • Compares To: Select an operator from the drop-down list. The operator compares the value in the Selected Filter column with the values in Criteria 1 and Criteria 2 to determine which items are displayed in the Available Items table.
  • Criteria 1: Enter a value to compare with the item in the Selected Filter column. When using Like or Not Like, you can use "%" to represent any number of characters.
  • Criteria 2: Enter a value for the end of a range if the Compares To column contains the Between or Not Between operators.

Available Items Table: Records are initially sorted on the first data column in ascending order. However, records can be sorted based on any column by clicking on the column heading.

  • Records per Page: Select how many items per page to display using the Records per Page drop-down list. You can view items in the table in increments of 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, or 1000. The default setting for the Records per Page drop-down list was selected using the Options>Customize Workstation Settings>Preferences tab.
  • Submit Time: The date and time the current activity started.
  • User ID: The user currently in the system.
  • Workstation: The computer name for the workstation on which the user is working. If your computer is not on a network, the system displays "Default."
  • Activity: The description of the activity currently occurring.
  • Database Name: The name of the database in which the activity is being performed, such as System or NTO.
  • When filtering data, select Operators to determine which data to display. Also, view a list of Filter Examples that are useful throughout the system and examples of How to Use Wildcards characters with Like and Not Like.
  • In the Available Items table, you can sort the data based on any column. Simply double-click on a column heading to sort according to that column.
  • The sorting functionality is only for table display and does not affect printing. Print uses the data from the database and is therefore not reflective of how the items were sorted.
  • Before backing up your database, use this form to determine whether someone is using the system.
  • When setting up security for users (Security>Set Up Organization Menus), we recommend limiting access to this form to include only system administrator-type users.
  • For larger organizations with many records, you may want to clear "Use Drop-Down List on Find Forms" using the Options>Customize Workstation Settings>Preferences tab. By doing so, it eliminates the time it takes to load this form.