When you are signed into the specification platform, you are counted as an ‘Active user’. Your subscription determines how many active users can sign into the platform at the same time.
If you have been invited to work on projects by other organizations, you will be counted towards that organization's active sessions when you have their organization profile open.
How to check who is active?
'Active users' shows who is currently signed into the organization. 'Active users' is visible to members of the organization but not visible to 'guests'.
You can get to 'Active users' by clicking on the profile menu (top right) > Active users.
The 'Active users' window shows:
- The number of people currently using the organization's subscription.
- How many concurrent sessions available with the organization's subscription.
- Who is currently signed in.
- The browser and operating system of their device.
- When their session started.
- What role they are using.
Ending sessions
'Active users' allows some users to end sessions:
Organization Administrators
- Can 'End sessions' for anyone in the 'Active users' grid.
- Can see the names of all users, both organization users and guests.
Organization users
- Can end their own session. For example, if they have forgotten to sign out of a device they do not have with them.
- Will not see the names of external collaborators. External collaborators will be shown as 'Guest'.
Guests
- Cannot access 'Active users'.
- Guests are users who have been invited to collaborate on projects but are not org users. They are displayed as guests to everyone except to 'Organization administrators', who will see their full name. Guests cannot access the 'Active users' area, so they cannot see who else is active, and they cannot end sessions.