I have seen a very nice feature on a filemaker db, which I'd like to replicate on our system

In short when you are done with your log in dialogue (not the fmpro one, but one built up w/n the solution) you have your start page. on one side there was a portal which showed whom else was logged in and from which IP they were at. I have found no such built in function with fmpro???

Of course the solution also used this data in it's log files to show not only who was on but from where etc,etc, this is great especially for remote user we have.etc.

The start page would also show the users to do list, memo;'s

phone calls, appointments, tasks, projects etc. dynamically. In what seemed like several floating portals that show up only when needed and based on the user.

So to further clarify, if you had no new phone messages, that portal would not show up. Thank you in advance for any and all advice.

You need a startup script that will get the user's name, either Status(CurrentUserName) or using a custom login system to get a name, and then add it to a field that contains all logged in users which can then be displayed. You can't use a global field though, since global fields are local to each user. So, you can have a prefs file that contains a single record and as many fields as you want for sharing data between users.

As for getting the IP, there is no function in FM as far as I know. This must be something related to the web page design, which I know nothing about.