escaping idle users back to menu

[Rkreiss@verizon.net]]

filePro is fairly robust.  I have found tht it takes a lot to mess up a file.  

The only time I had a client actually currupt their files was on a system running Citrix multiuser and someone shut the server off.

Oh yes, had a client lose a lot of data from a corrupted data when his Zenix system crashed.

Other then that, I have logged users off terminal server with no apparent dmage to the files.

Now I am not saying that doing something similar on a *nix system wont cause any damage.

I think it would be better to work on training your people to at least return to a menu before leaving.  Forcing a logoff may cause more disruption then leaving them logged in especially if a file or files do get damaged.

RICHARD 
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-----Original Message-----
From: scooter6 at gmail.com <scooter6 at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 6:25 PM
To: FilePro Mailing List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Subject: Re: escaping idle users back to menu

  ahhh I had forgotten about idleout - yea a little more brutal than I'd
like, but I agree, perhaps it will teach them (doubtful but I can
  try) either way, I'll accomplish what I want to.

  Has anyone used idleout on a system running filePro?  If they're in the
middle of updating a record and idleout boots them off
  the system, will it cause any file structure damage to the filepro
database?
  Just want to make sure before I start playing with this.

  I also found nidleout and autolog...anyone have any preferences?

  thanks

  Scott

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley <appl at jpr.com> wrote:

> scooter6 at gmail.com propounded (on Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 05:34:26PM -0500):
>  | Is there a way to 'force' users back to their last known menu
> selection?
> | Running SCO OpenServer filePro 5.6.07R4
> |
> | We have about 60 users and they are bad at leaving records on their
> screens
> | while at break or lunch, etc.
> |
> | Is there a way after 'x' amount of time to back them out of whatever
> record
> | they have pulled up on their screen and back out to their last menu prior
> to
> | entering the file they're in?
> |
> | Not sure this can be done but thought I'd ask -
>
> You might start with 'idleout'.  It's more brutal than you suggest,
> since it throws idle users straight back to login.  But maybe that way
> they'll get the message...
>
> --
> JP
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