Provide more useful feedback if a user has never logged in

[Matt Callaghan]

If a user has never logged into trac before, the session table shows a value of 0 for the last_visit column. The UserStatsMacro should present this information properly (instead of an obscure large number)

Example:

user1_logged_in_recently	2008/12/06 16:38:27	3 day(s)
user2_never_logged_in	1969/12/31 19:00:00	14222 day(s)

[Ryan J Ollos]

I've done some testing by creating an account and never logging in with that user. The user does not appear in the table. Perhaps this issue has been resolved already?

[anonymous]

Well if that's the case, then there needs to be a new bug that the user doesn't appear in the table unless they've logged in ...

Regardless of login status, all users should show up in the table for a one stop view to see who's logged in when.

And, as I mentioned a while ago in the original report, for those users who might have never logged in, it should say "never" instead of a "0" date (which is probably epoch 0??).

[Ryan J Ollos]

Replying to anonymous:

Regardless of login status, all users should show up in the table for a one stop view to see who's logged in when.

And, as I mentioned a while ago in the original report, for those users who might have never logged in, it should say "never" instead of a "0" date (which is probably epoch 0??).

I agree and I plan to work on this feature sometime in the next month or so, as well the other tickets for the UserStatsMacro that interest me: #4238, #4379, #5640.

[Ryan J Ollos]

See also #6142.

[Mark Cooke]

Replying to anonymous:

Well if that's the case, then there needs to be a new bug that the user doesn't appear in the table unless they've logged in ...

Regardless of login status, all users should show up in the table for a one stop view to see who's logged in when.

And, as I mentioned a while ago in the original report, for those users who might have never logged in, it should say "never" instead of a "0" date (which is probably epoch 0??).

How do you define all users? A session record is only created after login (by Trac) or manually (by the admin if, for example, you need them to appear in the assign-to drop-list and have configured Trac for this).

I suspect the 'never logged in' user in the original example was a user with assigned permissions who had never logged in...

Anyway, I think my patch for #4379 addresses this with the _ignore_before parameter?

[Steffen Hoffmann]

Replying to hieroglyph:

... How do you define all users? A session record is only created after login (by Trac) or manually (by the admin if, for example, you need them to appear in the assign-to drop-list and have configured Trac for this).

I suspect the 'never logged in' user in the original example was a user with assigned permissions who had never logged in...

Almost, but there is AccountManagerPlugin, that allows admin users to create user accounts beforehand. That new user procedure creates an entry in the session Trac db table too. Some users would even like me to give it a fake last-visit value in order to make the new users instantly available from restricted user drop-down select in /newticket (see #9252).

[Steffen Hoffmann]

Tip: UserQuery, an alternative wiki macro provided by AccountManagerPlugin doesn't show such insane values for new accounts.