I have a couple of questions about how it calculates Active Users.

1. How long does it take until a user is considered inactive?  5 minutes?  10 minutes?  1 minutes?  30 minutes?
2. How do you change that value?

Thanks.

I think I found the code in active_users_inc.asp but I am not sure if this is it:

 'Clean up old users
 'Initilse sql statement
 If strDatabaseType = "SQLServer" Then
  strSQL = "EXECUTE " & strDbProc & "DeleteActiveUser"
 Else
  strSQL = "DELETE FROM " & strDbTable & "ActiveUser WHERE " & strDbTable & "ActiveUser.Active < Now() - 0.0070;"
 End If

I assume that I need to modify the Now() - 0.0070 part, but I am not familiar what 0.0070 actually means.  It looks like it is measuring time in clock ticks or something like that, not minutes.  Of course, I am not an asp programmer, so I'm just guessing what 0.0070 means.

Am I looking in the right place?  If so, how do I convert minutes to whatever format that is expresses in?

You are looking in exactly the right place. The Now() time is obviously stored in terms of minutes in a day, as 0.0070 * (24 * 60) gives the 10 minutes you are looking for. So if you want to change it to 5 minutes, change the 0.0070 to 0.0035, for 20 minutes, change it to 0.0140, and so on.

Edit: Note that changing this will only work if you are using the Access version, to change the time for the SQL version you would need to alter the stored procedure DeleteActiveUser.

Blair

b_bonnett wrote: Edit: Note that changing this will only work if you are using the Access version, to change the time for the SQL version you would need to alter the stored procedure DeleteActiveUser.

Thanks for mentioning that part.  I am using the SQL version.  Now I guess I need to start looking in DeleteActiveUser.