>Hey, Matt. How's everything? The family? Birmingham?
>
>It's really hot down here in PC. My problem is this. I have an
>app that runs on a server with 15 to 20 users on it. Through my initial
>program I can track when they start the app, which menu selection they are
>running, and when it started.
>
>What happens sometimes is, the operator will abnormally terminate the app, go home, and
>the tracking system doesn't get updated until they log back in.
>
>So sometimes, it will show them as on, when they are not. I want to be able to
>see everyone that is logged onto the server. I would like to do this through VFP.
>
>Ideally, I would like to be able to close them out of the app.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Have a great day.
>
>Brad
Lock the record for the user on startup and unlock it on exit, if the application crashes the record will be automatically unlocked, so now to check if they are online or not you also check the lock status of the record.
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