Session Management: DEPRECATED

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When this option is enabled, you can specify how many concurrent sessions a user is allowed to have open at one time.

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About Session Management

A session is defined as one browser, on one device, accessing the platform. That browser can have multiple windows opens, but it still constitutes one session. When Session Management has been activated, users who are subject to the session limits must log off one or more existing sessions in order to start a new session. Administrators can turn the feature on or off, specify the maximum number of sessions per user, and see which user-sessions are in progress. To login after the session limit has been reached, old sessions can be either automatically closed or selectively closed by the user or an admin.

Considerations:

  • Session limits do not apply to admins who have User Management permission.
  • Multiple windows in a single browser constitute one session (not multiple sessions).
Exception:
If a new IE window is created by clicking an icon, it is a separate session.
But if the new window is created from within the browser, for example by pressing Ctrl+N, then the new window is part of the same session.
  • When a window is started in a browser's "incognito" mode, it is a new session.
(But if a second window is created in that mode, it is part of the same "incognito" session.)
  • If the maximum number of sessions is reduced, then at next login, a user who is at the new limit will be required to terminate multiple sessions, or will have them terminated automatically.

Working with Sessions

Enabling Session Management

--The user dialog

Managing Sessions

Management by Users

--personal settings or the login dialog

Management by Admins

--Lookup icon appears to select user