Session Meter Admin
Version
3.0 (last update on Apr 20, 2010)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
50
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
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19966
Date Added
24 June 2009
The Session Meter is a native module for joomla! 1.5 backend. It indicates current session with battery meter progress bar, and alerts user within one minute prior to expiration.
Latest version: 1.3, updated: 10 Jan 2010
As a fairly new comer to Joomla I was surfing the JED and found this. Sounded good so I installed it. At first I couldn't find it, but a post to the developers had an answer back in an hour and the problem was solved- I was looking for it in the wrong place! Works a treat once I knew how to find and enable it.
I have tested this session timer and works great in the backend.It tells you with a neat battery meter how much time left before expiry. Best of all if you forget watching the time meter, a windows popup warning you about saving your work before expiry. Good job.
Suggestion: I would like to see the possibility of having a frontend solution as well, especially when you have a community that input data into profiles, sometimes there are not aware that the session is timed. Having a session timer with a customisable warning message could prevent data loss.
Suggestion: I would like to see the possibility of having a frontend solution as well, especially when you have a community that input data into profiles, sometimes there are not aware that the session is timed. Having a session timer with a customisable warning message could prevent data loss.
Owner's reply
There is solution, but this extension requires club subscription: http://style13.com/session-meter-frontend
Download, install, publish adminstrator module to position status and it works like a charme. No more articles lost trying to save while session has timed out. Thanks! (PS in view to earlier reviews you can now choose for minutes countdown i.o. percentages)
Thanks for this excellent little tool. It helps a lot. Would be even nicer if it would appear automatically in the status bar. But other than that - perfect.
Very simple, but effective module. Works ideally for me.. i edited it slightly so that the 'battery' meter is just a rectangle meter. My only crit is that it shows a percentage and not number of mins left logged in, which in my opinion is more useful.. i might edit when i have time and send the author the code.
But overall a fantastic and simple extension.
But overall a fantastic and simple extension.