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[MM-A02] User Activity Summary

Counts audited actions and sessions per user and month, for the number of days you choose.

Report document

Web Intelligence document [MM-A02] Audit - User Activity Summary from the MetaMiner standard report pack. It reads the MetaMiner Database (MMDB) through the MetaMiner Standard universe. See Reports and Data.

What it answers

  • Which users are active, how many sessions they open and how long the sessions last.
  • How many objects each user works with, and which actions they take.
  • How activity splits between interactive and scheduled work, per user group.

Who uses it: BI platform administrators and license owners reviewing user adoption, inactive accounts and audit questions.

Report tabs

Tab Shows
User Activity (Last X Days) (AnyApp) Activity per user, any application.
User Activity (Last X Days) Activity per user.
User Activity (Last X Days) VTab Alternative layout of the same data.

Image of MM-A02 refreshed for one environment, User Activity (Last X Days) (AnyApp) tab

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Columns and measures

Group Columns
User User, User CMSID, User Group, User Group (Everyone Only), Audit User, Audit Session User, Environment
Sessions Audit Session Logon Month (YYYY MM), Audit Session Application Type, Audit Session Interactive/Scheduled?, Nbr Sessions (distinct), Audit Session Duration (sum, each session capped at 210 minutes)
Objects Audit Object CUID, Audit Object Application Type, Audit Object Current/Obsolete?, Audit Object is a Current Document?, UNI (universe used), Nbr Objects (distinct)
Measures Action Month (YYYY MM), Nbr Events, Views, Refreshes, Prompts, Creates, Deletes, Modifies, Saves, Searches, Edits, Runs, Deliveries, Retrieves, Page Retrieves, Event Triggers

Prompts

Prompt Required Answer What it does
Environments No Pick one or more Environments to include, listed by CMSID with their description. Leave empty for all. The prompts below list only values from the environments you pick.
UserGroups No Pick one or more User groups whose members to include.
Users No Pick one or more BusinessObjects users to include.
Action Age (Days) Yes Type a value How many days back from today to report. For example 90 keeps the last 90 days of events.
AuditObjectCUIDs No Type one or more values Filled in by a drill link from another report. Leave empty when you refresh the report yourself.
Excluded Audit Users No Pick one or more Audit users to leave out, for example service accounts.
Include MetaMinerAdmin Ids Yes Pick one No leaves out audit events caused by the MetaMiner account itself.

Image of the MM-A02 Prompts dialog with Environments answered

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Input controls

Display controls change how the report shows its data:

Input control What it does
Prompt Selection Shows or hides the block under the header that lists your prompt answers. Spaced (default) shows it with a space between list items, Show shows it without spacing, Hide hides it.
Prompt Selection & Notes Shows or hides the block under the header that lists your prompt answers and notes. Spaced (default), Show or Hide.
Environment / CMSID Shows environments in the report body by display name or by CMSID. Filters and prompts always list CMSIDs.
Number Format Switches large numbers to a short format, for example K for 1,000s.
View/Refresh/etc* Picks the action the activity measures count: View, Refresh, Prompt, Create, Delete, Modify, Save, Search, Edit, Run, Deliver or Retrieve.

Filter controls keep only the rows that match the values you pick: Content is Current/Obsolete?, Object is a Current Document?, Interactive/Scheduled?, Environment, User Group, User, Universe.

Image of the MM-A02 Input Controls panel

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Link Opens
Event Detail Drill Opens [MM-A03] Event Details for that user and environment.

A drill link opens the target report through BI launch pad OpenDocument and passes the environment and the selected item as prompt answers.

Run the report

  1. In BI launch pad, open [MM-A02] Audit - User Activity Summary from the folder where you imported the standard report pack.
  2. Refresh the document and answer the prompts.
  3. Use the input controls to change the display or narrow the results.

Data it needs: Audit data: the environment's audit database must be configured and audit collection turned on. See Audit and CMS Databases and Audit settings.