Active Logins

[garrys]

Hi,

Is there any built-in function to find out how many users are currently using (logged-in) the hosted file?

Thanks,

Garu

[Vaughan]

The short answer is "no".

That's also the long answer. ;-(

[Vaughan]

Ok, ok there is an even longer answer.

It's possible to do *anything* with FMP, even things that FMP does not do natively. Generally, however, a trade-off is made with complexity and reliability.

User logging can be done by scripting the file opening (startup script) so that each user creates a record in a "users" table. When the users close the file this record is either marked as being closed or deleted (or something similar) with a shutdown script so that active user records can be distinguished from non-active.

Such a scheme will only work if the users *always* run the startup script at file open and *always* run the shutdown script at file close. It's pretty easy to break such schemes, so the whole thing becomes unreliable.

[comment]

Short answer: Get (UserCount).

Long answer: Get (UserCount). Other than that, I agree with everything you said.

Even longer answer: This question is posted in the 'Server 8' section. I am not sure what information you can get from the server application itself. But in the client there is Get (UserCount).