Difficult to tell if someone is active

[matthias-ronge]

As an administrator of a Production server, it is sometimes necessary to restart the server or Tomcat. Then all active users are kicked out. To do this, in Production 2 there was a nice overview of all connected users, showing the start of the session and the last interaction time. This could be viewed without logging in.

Currently in Production 3, only "active" is displayed for users.

It's hard to tell if the user is interacting with the application, or if the open session has been idle for hours, but you could restart Tomcat. Also, if you have many users, you have to flip through the complete user list to find all active users. Then, theoretically, you have to phone up all active users one by one to find out.

Goal: Make the list available again in Production. This should respect data protection regulations (i.e. only after login).

[matthias-ronge]

Idea / suggestion: Different colors indicate user status:

• green (normal): User has worked with his session in the last n minutes and has not opened a file in the Metadata Editor
• var(--orange): User has been working with his session in the last n minutes and has opened a file in the Metadata Editor
• var(--medium-gray): User has not worked with his session in the last n minutes and has not opened a file in the Metadata Editor
• var(--light-green) (yellow): User has not worked with his session in the last n minutes but has still opened a file in the Metadata Editor

It would make sense to sort the active users in the table to the beginning (see also #4101, #3295).

Perhaps, a mouse-over could show the time the user was no longer interacting with his session and, with the Metadata Editor open, the process title and number.

Perhaps, a right-click menu could provide the ability to remove the Metadata Editor lock, or do both, reset the lock (if any) and log off the user. (There should be special authorization for this.)

n can be something like 2¹² seconds (68 minutes) or so