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authenticated participants users - user sessions

asked on January 3, 2017

Hi,

 

Is there a way to monitor the users who are login into Forms with authenticated participant license?

 

Forms Version 10.1

 

Thanks!

 

 

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replied on January 6, 2017

Hey AJ,

You can find information on which users are logged into Forms with an authenticated participant license through the Forms database.

The steps would be as follows:

  1. Log into SQL Server Management Studio or whichever database management tool you use
  2. Go to Databases -> Forms -> Tables
  3. You'll want to access the dbo.cf_users and dbo.cf_sessions tables

 

In dbo.cf_users you can find the user_type which corresponds to these different user types. You'll primarily be interested in 3, 4, and 8.

3 = Authenticated participants

4 = LDAP inherited Forms participants

8 = SSO participants

Once you have that information you can look look to their user_id. The user_id will be needed to join the two tables.

Within dbo.cf_sessions you will also user_id, but also the column last_active. Writing a query using the details I have provided should produce what you are asking.

A few things to also note:

  • last_active is in UTC
  • If they explicitly logout, the dbo.cf_session entry should be removed
  • You'll only see the zombie session if their browser is closed without logging out or if the browser crashes

 

Thanks,

Kevin

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replied on January 6, 2017

Thanks Kevin

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replied on February 13, 2017

Thank you Kevin. This is useful.

Is it possible to obtain the last_active column for all users, not just users who were recently active or did not close their browser properly? The purpose of this ask is to determine whether users are using the licenses they have been allocated; i.e., to justify the procurement of additional licenses.

It is possible to determine this for Full Named user licenses (as mentioned in this post ) but I could not find anything similar for Participant users. Thanks.  

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