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User sessions expire when the software sits idle for the time specified on the Connections tab. You can manually extend a user session back to the default time-out period, or enter a zero to disable time-outs.

For more information about defining the default time-out period and disabling time-outs, see Setting user connection options.

If a user time-out period expires, the FYI Administration Console automatically alerts the server with a soft kill announcement. Users who are logged in, but not actively working in a database, may risk losing editing updates if a hard kill is performed when their user session expires.

For more information about disconnecting users, including soft and hard kills, see Disconnecting user sessions.

You can extend user time-outs for users in the FYI Server and FYI Administration Console Server on the Connections tab in the FYI Admin Console.

 

To Manually Extend User Time-Outs

1.On the Connections tab, do one of the following:

•Click the Server side tab to extend a users session on the FYI Server.

•Click the Administration side tab to extend a users session on the FYI Administration Console Server.

2.In the user listing, click the applicable user connections.

i.To select multiple connections, use SHIFT+click or CTRL+click.

3.Click the Extend button.

i.Clicking the Extend button resets the session time-out to number of minutes entered in the Idle session timeout field in the Connection options dialog box, and updates the time-out minutes displayed in the Expiration column.