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Show “user logged in as”

Jun 16, 2010 07:13am Carl Benfield Lyncean 165 posts	In our company we’re very free and easy with our hardware - by which I mean that we often use each other’s computers, rather than what some of you may be thinking! The problem is that Solve doesn’t show who are logged in as (although I note that the discussion forum does have this). Can you enable this feature so we don’t start setting actions/sending emails as the person who was on the computer beforehand?

Jun 16, 2010 01:18pm Engineering SpecialOps Administrator 3952 posts	Let’s keep this forum PG13 if we can Carl ;) I agree, in your case it would be nice to see who is logged into the system. However, because you are in the habit of sharing computers I would also suggest that you also establish some best practices as well. For instance, even if the system says that Carl is logged in, Cindy may not notice this and may start sending emails from Carl’s account. You may want to consider getting your staff in the habit of logging off after each use and making sure that the browsers do NOT remember the login information. You can also change the background and make it unique for each account. This will be more dramatic than a simple field displaying the login name. Unfortunately our forum and our product are 2 different beasts so we don’t have a switch to turn that feature on. But I believe it is on our to do list. Thank you Carl.

Jul 02, 2010 11:28am Engineering SpecialOps Administrator 3952 posts	When you login to the application itself the current user’s email address is now displayed in the top of the screen in the browser’s page title (normally the tab).

Jul 02, 2010 12:19pm Carl Benfield Lyncean 165 posts	Hmmm. I’m running Chrome under Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Has the Chrome for Mac been updated?

Jul 02, 2010 12:22pm Engineering SpecialOps Administrator 3952 posts	Yep, but you may need to clear the browser’s cache / restart the browser to catch the most recent version of our site.

Jul 02, 2010 11:48pm GinasBookkeeping Lyncean 101 posts	Carl, changing the backgrounds is a great way to visually see that you are not using your own login. As long as you don’t have too many users and each person picks a different one. It is great. I use it here and use the concept in my QuickBooks files by making the check screen a different color for each Bank account so checks are not entered into the wrong one.

Jul 03, 2010 09:25am Carl Benfield Lyncean 165 posts	Gina, Thanks for the tip - that’s a really good idea, because I’m still not seeing the magic that SpecialOps claim to have done (I’m sure they have and it’s me that is being dense). It would be nice to be able to upload backgrounds too, but that’s definitely on the “nice but unimportant” pile.

Jul 05, 2010 03:35am dave@vm Lyncean 727 posts	Engineering SpecialOps - Jul 02, 2010 11:28am When you login to the application itself the current user’s email address is now displayed in the top of the screen in the browser’s page title (normally the tab). I see it when I run my S360 in Chrome using the application shortcut, but not when running it in a standard browser.