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pch
@pch
06/14/16 10:29:10AM
328 posts

How to track and log Profile Admin activities after login?


Using Jamroom

michael:
2) (guess) if the standard joomla .htaccess reads "take any url coming in and re-write it to index.php" then your going to need to exclude the /jamroom/ directory from that re-write rule.
Jamroom's .htaccess does a similar thing, it takes any url directed at it and sends it to router.php for processing.
May be that joomla doesnt like having a different CMS system living within its directory structure.

Hi Michael,

JR has its own router.php file and Joomla its own router.php file too. So, there are separate files in separate folders. I just can't understand why JR which is installed in a subfolder is picking up and including to the JR activities, information from Joomla which is installed in the root. I doesn't make sense. I am lost. JR in a subfolder was supposed to be isolated from whatever script installed in the root.

So what is the fix to this issue?

Thanks
updated by @pch: 06/14/16 01:43:22PM
pch
@pch
06/14/16 02:15:41AM
328 posts

How to track and log Profile Admin activities after login?


Using Jamroom

brian:
1) It does log the user name - see their name in brackets. If you see n username, then the user is NOT logged in or it's a system worker process.
2) You've got a messed up .htaccess file in your ROOT folder that is sending stuff to Jamroom - you will need to modify the root folder .htaccess file to NOT route into Jamroom's directory.

Hi Brian,

Thanks for your reply.

1) Yes, you may be right.

2) Well, what should I put in the .htaccess file in the root folder? It is the standard Joomla .htaccess file.

Thanks
pch
@pch
06/13/16 01:35:12PM
328 posts

Is there a way to hide the public Admin Status (invisible mode)?


Using Jamroom

lol, You got me :)
I was afraid to do it myself and I didn't want to bore you, asking about how to do it.

Thanks in advance for the tutorial. I will wait.
pch
@pch
06/13/16 01:26:56PM
328 posts

How to track and log Profile Admin activities after login?


Using Jamroom

Also there are two other issues with the Jamroom Activity Log in the Dashboard:

1) It logs IP address only, not the profile user name. it should add the user name as well.

2) JR is installed in a subfolder e.g: mysite.com/jamroom/

but the JR Activity log is even logging and showing the activity of the CMS installed in the main site (mysite.com). So, many "404 Page not found" in the JR log. I think that when installed in a subfolder, it was supposed to log the activity of JR in that subfolder only, right?

I have weird log rows like this:

Date: 11 Jun 2016 14:23:30 IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xx Text: 404 Page not found: /Big_Concert_Band/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=149&id=65&lang=fr&view=category

Please note that this log is a mixing of information of JR (/Big_Concert_Band/) with the
CMS installed on the main site (index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=149&id=65&lang=fr&view=category). It wasn't supposed to work that way, isn't it?

Also, I have installed a fresh JR5 site with no user accounts or profiles except the Master Admin but I don't know where this infomation in the JR Activity log is coming from (Big_Concert_Band, Techno_DJ, Punk_Band, Rock_Band, etc). It seems to me that they were left behind in the database when the JR Development moved from JR4 to JR5.

Please consider investigating this issue.

Thanks
pch
@pch
06/13/16 12:35:03PM
328 posts

Is there a way to hide the public Admin Status (invisible mode)?


Using Jamroom

paul:
Its possible.
I'd create a checkbox field in the user account form using the Form Designer. Call the field 'user_master_status' say and allocate it to just the master admin group.
Then, in the User module online_status_row template, test for the master admin and the value of this new custom field, outputting 'offline/online' as appropriate.
hth

Hi Paul. Thanks. Any plan to include it to the core feature and roll it out in the system update? Thanks.

strumelia:
Another thought would be to simply create an additional Master Admin profile/user with a generic member name, and log in under that profile when working on the site while wanting to appear offline with your recognized ID. It's always good to have a spare Master Admin account anyway, in case you want someone to help you fix your site at some point but don't want them to have access to your private stuff and messages etc.

Hi strumelia. Thanks for your reply. You are right I have thought of a spare Master Admin account too. It will be useful.

Thanks
pch
@pch
06/13/16 11:26:46AM
328 posts

How to track and log Profile Admin activities after login?


Using Jamroom

Yes. The Admin activity is not logged. Also it will be great to have an option to exclude some Admin IDs from the Activity log. It will be good not to display the Master Admin. I would not like other Profile admins to even get to know the existence of some other Master Admin Features/tools or to track my activities as the Master Admin.

Or maybe the Master Admin activity log should be visible to Master Admins only while the remaining JR activity log (including the Profile Admin log) is visible to all admins.

Yep Aparna might be a good starting point. I am not a developer. So maybe you guyz from JR Team can help the JR Community. We will all appreciate it because it is a important feature.

Any plan to develop this module?

Thanks in advance.
updated by @pch: 06/13/16 12:55:56PM
pch
@pch
06/13/16 04:55:50AM
328 posts

How to track and log Profile Admin activities after login?


Using Jamroom

Well, it seems to me that Jamroom Activity Log will not log activities such as profile password change, profile deletion, quota change, forum post, video deletion by a Profile Admin on another user profile etc. It seems that Jamroom Activity tracker ony logs the profile activity of the owner of profile not the activity of a "Profile Admin" on someone else profile. I am not quite sure, please confirm.

Thanks
updated by @pch: 06/13/16 12:27:49PM
pch
@pch
06/13/16 04:38:33AM
328 posts

Profile Admin vs Link user to Profile


Using Jamroom

Hi Paul,

Thanks a lot for your reply. Things are more clear to me now.

Thanks
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