Using the Peg Board
The Peg Board displays the login status and activity of individual users. For the users, the Peg Board tracks the login and logout times, total logged time, and keyboard and mouse-click activity.
| 1. | Select Go To > Calendar. Your Calendar appears. |
| 2. | Click the Peg Board tab. |
| 3. | Use the local menu to manage the activities. Right-click and select one local menu option. |
On the Peg Board, the tacks indicate whether a user is currently logged in (green), logged away (yellow), or logged out (red).
| 4. | To post your Whereabouts for others, right-click and select Log Away. |
In the My whereabouts text box, type or select your whereabouts.
| 5. | In User Inactivity area, blue bars indicate the length of time a user is inactive, based on the absence of mouse clicks or keystrokes. |
The Peg Board displays a column indicating when user's systems perform various actions.
○ The gear symbol indicates the user is performing batch processing, such as globally replacing fields or synchronizing.
○ The bell symbol indicates the user logged away but is still logged into GoldMine.
○ The question mark indicates the user terminated without logout.
| 6. | Users with Master Rights can force all users to exit GoldMine to perform maintenance on the system. The forced logout grants users a specified amount of time to save their work before being logged out. |
TIP: A Master user can also force a single user to log out by double-clicking the user's green tack in the Peg Board display.
NOTE: By default, GoldMine periodically updates the Peg Board display beneficial for notebook PCs that use power conservation features that shut down the hard disk. To disable the periodic update feature, enter UpdatePegboard=0 in the [GoldMine] section of Username.ini
An initialization file located in the GoldMine directory that stores individual settings for a user..
