Admin UI activating view to see recent signed in users

[Mattias Axell]

Hi,

I recently went to Admin UI of our platform and discovered Users > Sign ins:

Sign In Retention Disabled To enable sign in retention set USER_SIGN_IN_ACTIVITY_RETENTION_DAYS to a value greater than 0 in Alaveteli’s configuration. Any existing records below will soon be purged and no further sign ins will be tracked.

How do I configure this in Alaveteli? Do I add it like the following in general.yml config?

#  Add a value greater than 0 to see recently signed in users, where e.g. 14  are 14 days 

# of activity.

USER_SIGN_IN_ACTIVITY_RETENTION_DAYS: 14

Have a great wekeend!

Best

Mattias

[Gareth Rees]

> How do I configure this in Alaveteli? Do I add it like the following in general.yml config?

Yup!

You'll also want to make sure you have the purge task in the crontab [1].

> I recently went to Admin UI of our platform and discovered Users > Sign ins:

Yeah, this is kind of new. We don't actually use this on WDTK ourselves yet as we had a few privacy policy things to address [2].

Basically, I want to hide the sign ins behind a dropdown so that we're not seeing them by default. We added this due to some extensive misuse that we were handling, which has since subsided a little.

Let us know if it's useful.

Best,

Gareth

[1] https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/blob/0.41.1.0/config/crontab-example#L46
[2] https://github.com/mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme/issues/1203