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biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Jul-24-2006 17:09

Hello everyone!

While working a favor under another director's account, someone else logged on and did not see my name listed as being online. When they subsequently logged into the director's account, the favor was quit and they worked another case. This is not the first time this has happened to me, and I am wondering if there is a way to notify someone that someone is in the account currently when they attempt to log on? I have lost many a case this way...

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cfm
cfm
Nomad

Jul-24-2006 17:14

This is uncommon, and is a risk with frequent password sharing. There really isn't anyway to check if someone else is using an account. Even logging in as your self to check first isn't always reliable, though it will help.

In the agencies that I was part of that password shared, it was a common curtosy that you didn't quit cases on someone elses detective that you didn't start.

Sounds like maybe you all need to get together and work on what agency policy is going to be with Pass sharing. A few ground rules never hurt.


biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Jul-24-2006 17:34

Very true cfm, and in this case was a definite. However, there are other times where the case was just lost, gone or whatever. Has this ever happened to anyone else? Unfortunately looking to see who's online or checking your agency roster hasn't been working very well...

AraLives
AraLives
Battered Shoe

Jul-24-2006 18:05

I guess the main issue here for us is that the agency roster doesn't seem to always be accurate, not showing that someone is online when they actually are. I don't think Biggie was saying that the favour was purposely quit, but instead that it had disappeared as a result of the second log in.

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Jul-24-2006 18:08

I guess I just think that maybe some sort of notification (ie. only one person allowed on a detective at one time) might be effective. Thoughts anyone?

By the way, sorry I am the queen of whiny threads lately :)

AndreaX
AndreaX
Thespian

Jul-24-2006 18:28

That has happened to us a lot. We'd be working someone elses detective (for a favor!) and then that person logs in and we get booted out. I wish there was a way to prevent someone logging in when they are already logged in, sort of speak.
I have never seen a favor being "lost" or "gone" however. When I log in I can quickly see that a case is being worked and I assume they were on unless I know for a God-given-fact that they are gone and left that case open.

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Jul-24-2006 18:30

See my problem is that I don't get booted out, we are both on playing simultaneously...OMG i have to stop posting LOL, I swear I am not this much of a nag :)

AndreaX
AndreaX
Thespian

Jul-24-2006 19:00

both at the same time??? that has NEVER happened to me and I am in and out of different people so much that i swear I'm suffering from multiple personality dissorder!

Della Devine
Della Devine
Well-Connected

Jul-24-2006 19:04

We have had simultaneous log ins, but so far have not lost a case or a favor over it as I can tell pretty quickly if someone is working a case. And it is rare that this happens. Most of my team communicates via IM, so if I'm on the computer, I'm available to my team and I know if they're online.

As for the agency roster, Breit now accuses me of having a 'cloak of invisibility' because she knows good and well i'm logged in since she's talking to me, though I often don't show as logged in. *wicked grin* I rather like that.

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Jul-24-2006 19:15

Yeah I would love to get everyone on the same page with the IMs, unfortunately due to personal preferences, login issues and various other stuff, we don't have a consistent IM system we all use

Thanks for getting back to me on this, everyone, good to know I'm not the only one and appreciate the feedback!

biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

Jul-24-2006 19:52

Maybe Ben or Sunny can shed some light on this dual login thing...

**tee hee, a little too excited that the almighty might answer little ole me's question**

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