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Show Session Information

Overview

This is the reference documentation for the administration menu item: Utilities→Session Information

This page provides detailed information about a session. In addition to the basic session information it shows information about the user who is logged into the session (if any) - the roles currently assigned to the session, and the folders used by the session.

This information can be used by developers to investigate behavior of their business processes or by administrators who want to understand why certain menu items are shown (or not shown) for a specific session. It can also be used if an administrator or a developer wants to investigate the reason for a message in the message log.

If you want to investigate messages, the session id is present in the message information, and it is shown in the log.

If you want to investigate the session for a running instance of the application, you must show the source for a page and find the value specified for WSYD_SID (if the value contains a semi-colon - e.g. 2;3514, the session id is the part following the semi colon - in this case 3514).

 

It is important to note that the information shown on this page is the last registered information for the session. If you are investigating a message in the log, you must be aware that the information can have been different at the time the message was created.

Show Session Page

Basic Information

This section shows the basic information registered for the session.

Fields

IP Address:

The IP-address used by the client accessing the application

Creation date /time:

When the session was created / the time of the first request registered for this session.

Last request date / time:

The time of the last request registered for the application.

Request count:

How many HTTP-requests the application has received for the session.

Timeout:

The timeout registered for the session.

Folder list / Folder list description:

The folder list used by the session. The folders found based on the folder list is shown below.

User Information

Contains information about the user who is currently logged into the session is shown (if a user logs out, the session is ended - but the user information will still be present).

Fields

Login name:

The login name of the user - this can be used to find more user information in the user maintenance.

Full name:

The full name registered for the user.

Roles Used by Session

This section shows a list of the roles currently assigned to the session. Note that this is not necessarily the same as the roles assigned to the user.

Fields

Name:

The name of the role.

Description:

The description registered for the role.

Comment:

The comment registered for the role.

Priority:

The priority (importance) of the role. The higher number, the more important the role.

Intranet Only:

A Yes/No field specifying whether the role only is assigned to intranet sessions.

Timeout:

If the role has a timeout assigned, it will shown here. If the field is 0 it will have no influence on the timeout assigned to the session.

Folders Used by Session

This section shows the list of the folders used by the session when it resolves the location of the HTML templates used by the PageGenerators.

Fields

Path:

The relative path of the folder.

Ressources location:

The location of ressource files registered for the folder.

Description:

A descriptive text for the folder.

Sequence:

The sequence of the folder in the folder list.

URL Reference for java script ressource / URL Reference for style sheet:

References to the location of special files referred by the templates in the folder.

Site Information

This section contains information about the site the session has accessed.

Fields

Site key

The unique identification of the site.

Site description:

The textual name of the site.

Entry URL:

The URL used to access the site.

Current Menu Information

Shows information about the last menu item registered for the session. This information can be especially relevant when investigating deep link behavior - as it is this key that us resolved and set when a deep link is used to access the site.

Menu link surrogate

The unique identification of the link (the connection of the menu item to the site structure tree).

Menu link text

The name of the menu item.