Using the User Explorer

In this topic:

Viewing User Events

What You Can Do

 

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User Explorer allows you to explore all events recorded from an individual user. Each User Explorer Folder in the left pane (initially, just "All Users") displays a set of "users" in the right pane. See User Explorer Folders for more about the folders.  With User Explorer, you start with a single user and "drill in," first to activity type, and then to specific recorded events. From here, you have access to everything the Client Recorder has captured for each user.

Viewing User Events

In User Explorer, selecting a user opens an Events window where you can view all activities for one user.

To view the list of users:

  1. Click the User Explorer button at the bottom of the navigation pane.

  2. Select the All Users folder at the top of the navigation pane. Users are listed alphabetically by Display Name in the right pane.  To order the list by User Name or Domain, simply click the column heading.  

  3. Double-click a user in the right pane list. A Criteria box opens. If you wish, change the date or computers to call up, using General Criteria. Note that specifying individual computers in General Criteria could prevent you from seeing data for the user, but if you are interested in one user's actions on certain computers (for example, an IT Manager's activity on QA machines), this criteria setting is useful.

  • Select Bypass Criteria Dialog on the General Criteria panel to skip the Criteria box and go straight to the Events window the next time you open this form.

  • Select Save Criteria to on either panel to save your Criteria changes for this form.  

  1. Click OK on the Criteria box to accept the Criteria and display the data in an Events window.
    If you see <No Data Available>, there was no data that met your Criteria. Once an Events window is open, you can click the Criteria button in the Navigate pane at any time to set adjust the Criteria.  

  2. Start by selecting an Activity tab at the top of the Events window (Screen Snapshots, Web Sites Visited, Email,  etc.).


     

  3. In the upper left Navigate pane of the Events window, click on the user to show dates in the right Summary pane. If you wish, click + to open the navigation tree for the user and select a different branch.



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  4. Click Load Events at the top of the Navigate pane to load ALL events for the user into the lower pane.

  5. Click Grouping to change the Navigate and Summary displays by changing the data hierarchy.

  6. Click the + next to a user to open the Navigate tree and select the next level of data (e.g., one day) to view a Summary for that group.  

  1. Select an item in the Summary pane to narrow the data.

  2. Click the Load Events button to view your selection (group of recordings) in the grid in the Events pane. From the Events pane, you can View Screen Snapshots, print the grid, export the grid, and choose which columns are shown. Fields for each event show Start or Recorded Time, Computer, User, Program, and other information. See "Understanding Recorded Events" for an explanation of the fields in each activity recording.

Use the Auto-Load feature to automatically load the currently selected Navigate or Summary group of events into the Events grid. Open the View menu and select Autoload Events.

  1. Select a row (a record) in the Events grid to focus on a particular event record. Fields for each event show Start Time, Computer, User, Program, and other information. When you select an event record, you can click the buttons at the top of the Events pane or right-click for a menu of actions. When you select a Chat, Email, or Keystroke event, the Content for the activity (message or keys typed) appears in the very bottom pane.

You can create an instant report by opening the File menu on the User Events window, selecting Report, and Create Report (to save the report to a Reports folder) or Preview Report (to view the report in a Preview window).

What You can Do

User Explorer allows you to display, analyze, and act on user recordings.

Related Topics

Creating User Explorer Folders

Adding and Removing Users

Using the Events Window

Understanding Recorded Events