Find out how long employee work

[Ezekiel12]

Hello,

I have probably unusual question.

Is there a way how to find out how long employee work with Inventor?

For example: He came at 8:00 to work, start Inventor, login to Vault, the LMTOOLs gave him 1 license for Inventor and 1 for Vault. But he go out from PC and physically don't work. He sign out from PC at 16:00 after 8H, it looks that he work 8H but in reality he worked only 1-2 hours... 

Is there some way how to find out the exact time of hiw work in Inventor? Opening files, saving, etc...

Thx for any suggestions! 🙂

Regards

[mcgyvr]

No Inventor does not have a computer chair sensor function 🙂

There might be some other non-autodesk programs that might help though..

I googled and saw this..No idea if it works or how it works though

http://www.cadtempo.com/

I'm sure there might be others.

[chrisrodway]

Have you tried using the find utility in vault

Go tools > find

On the advance tab you search for multiple inventor properties with in vault

To find out how long the user has been on you could search for

Checked Out On (Whats Been checked out on the date in question)

Add the columns checked out date and time and it will tell you when the user start what job

shown in attached I started the 1279 job at 11:48 this morning

Hope this helps 

[Cadmanto]

Another option you might have is while I am no iLogic guru, there is an internal MS clock that semi tracks files.

You can access this by looking at the properties of the file.

Maybe someone can create an iLogic routine that can do this for you.

If this solved your issue please mark this posting "Accept as Solution".

Or if you like something that was said and it was helpful, Kudos are appreciated. Thanks!!!! 

     

[mcgyvr]

Of course that still doesn't account for the user just getting up and going for a smoke or whatever..

You need something that would track time of keyboard/mouse movement with some hysteresis built in. 

Or just get more responsible employees. 🙂

[cbenner]

From the back side of this, there are ways of monitoring people's internet usage (thank God they don't do that here!)  😉

But again, this doesn't help if the person is actually away from the desk for long periods.

[Cadmanto]

No, it doesn't, but that is where I am hoping someone can write a program that can start the clock when the PC is idol for "X" time amount it will stop and start again upon the next keystroke.

Maybe this is not possible, but it sounds good in theory. 

If this solved your issue please mark this posting "Accept as Solution".

Or if you like something that was said and it was helpful, Kudos are appreciated. Thanks!!!! 

     

[PatrickHughes]

I hope you guys (and gals) don't mind me stopping in to add a comment.

I'm the author of CadTempo and I would just like to mention that the CadTempo program does indeed log actual time that a user is working in a drawing/model. When a user goes idle there is an adjustable timer that will then kick in and wait for further activity before adding more edit time to the file. If the file retains focus during inactivity (a break, phone call, etc.) the total time continues to accumulate. If a user switches focus to another program time is not added to the file. In this way actual work time is properly assigned.

[mcgyvr]

Interesting Patrick..

How did you know to come here at the perfect time shortly after I posted that link?

No really how?

Do you monitor your website traffic? or something?

[PatrickHughes]

Hi mcgyvr,

I visit the forums periodically - mostly CAD Managers and AutoCAD. My contributions have been minimal however because I'm a bit behind the times using Acad r14 (yep, the real r14).

But to answer your question more to the point, I do have a stats monitor on my website and I saw the uptick referral from this post. I don't usually step in.

Thanks for the mention.

[mcgyvr]

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@PatrickHughes wrote:

Hi mcgyvr,

Thanks for the mention.

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No problem..but thank google and your website designer/SEO for keeping you right at the top of the rankings.. 🙂

[PatrickHughes]

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@mcgyvr wrote:

No problem..but thank google and your website designer/SEO for keeping you right at the top of the rankings.. 🙂

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Heh, I'm going to take that as a compliment since I'm the chief cook and bottle washer, website designer/SEO etc. - however Google does deserve thanks.  

[TravisNave]

I was thinking maybe you could put a TIMEOUTALL option in your adskflex.opt file and if the Engineer is not actively using Inventor, say ever 15 minutes, his license will timeout (INACTIVE) in the debug.log and return the license to the pool.  You might then be able to give yourself one extra tool to determine this.

Otherwise, the CADTempo program mentioned previously sounds pretty awesome!

For eveything you could possibly want to know about the adskflex.opt Options file for FlexLM, please see my KB article here:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Installation-Licensing/Managing-the-adskflex-opt-Options-File/td-p/307...

Good Luck!

[brian.cranston]

I use a program called JTB FlexReport.  He's also written a program called Process Monitor that tracks usage of any program, doesn't have to be network licensed.

http://www.jtbworld.com/jtbflexreport/index.htm

-Brian