[Koha-devel] Clarify timeout syspref?

[Axel Bojer]

Wagner, Jane skrev:
> -----Original Message----- On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Chris
> Cormack <chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:15 PM, paul POULAIN
>> <paul.poulain at biblibre.com> wrote:
>>> Wagner, Jane a écrit :
>>>> Can someone clarify the timeout system preference?  In the
>>>> 3.0.x manual site, it says
>>>> 
>>> Hi Jane,
>>>> Inactivity timeout for cookies authentication (in seconds).
>>>> This preference applies to both the staff client and the OPAC.
>>>> 
>>>> Default Value: 12000000
>>>> 
>> I think at some point someone probably complained they were getting
>>  disconnected too much so it got set to a really high value.
> 
> One problem is : as far as I can see, there's only one timeout, while
>  there probably should be 2 : one for opac, one for intranet. Short
> for opac, long for intranet, where you want to : start cataloging a
> book, go have a coffee, continue cataloging that darn book. my 2 cts 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
> That's one reason I was looking at the syspref (thanks to all for the
> responses).  It would be useful to specify that an OPAC session
> should close after x minutes of inactivity -- especially for a public
> workstation in a library.  However, a staff session should have a
> much longer timeout.  We may try to do something with this at some
> point....

At the same time perhaps also make it possible to log in as another user 
in opac as in staff on the same computer? I am sometimes confused that I 
have to log out of staff to test a user in opac, unless I have a 
separate machine to do this on.

Best regards
Axel Bojer