Manage Concurrent Users
Access this form with Administrative user rights using System>Manage Concurrent Users. |
Use this form to view and print a list of users currently logged on to the system.
Your system is licensed for a specific number of concurrent users per system also called "seats." Each time a user logs on to the system, a record is entered into the Manage Concurrent Users list. Occupied seats are counted by User ID and Workstation. Each unique combination of User ID and Workstation counts as one seat. When the number of occupied seats equals the total for which you are licensed, access to the system is denied until a seat becomes available. When a user logs off the system, the record is deleted from the search list and that seat is once again available.
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.
- 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: This column displays the date and time that the user logged on to the system.
- User ID: This column displays the user currently logged on to the system (Security>Maintain Users).
- User Type: This column displays the type of user currently logged on to the system—Regular or EV User. EV User is only an option if the Executive View User module is installed.
- Workstation: This column displays the computer name for the workstation on which the user is working.
- Activity: This column displays "MIP Fund Accounting" if the user is currently logged on to the MIP Fund Accounting system.
- 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.
- When users exit the system incorrectly, sometimes they create an "unoccupied licensed seat"; that is, they are logged as active even though they are no longer using the system. For example, if a user reboots their machine (due to power failure or system lockup) while the system is running, you can have an unoccupied licensed seat on your system. When you delete the user from this form, it frees up their licensed seat for another user.
- To find out how many concurrent users are allowed, open the System>Activate License form. The number listed for "Concurrent Users" is the number of users allowed in the system at one time.
- When setting up security for users (Security>Set Up Organization Menus), we recommend you limit access to this form to include only system administrator-type users.
- For larger organizations with many records, you may want to clear the "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.
- To remove users who are logged as active (even though they are no longer using the system); simply highlight the line, and click Delete
. This frees up those licensed seats for other users.