How to display only online users on a screen?

[Louis33]

Hello everyone,

I would like to display on my homepage only the profiles that are currently online but I can’t. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks for your valuable feedback!

Louis.

[Victor]

Hi @Louis33,

There is no built-in way to do such things in Adalo.
You could create a workaround:

• add a field to Users collection, call it “Last activity time”
• update this field when user does something in the app (for example, enters the chat screen)
• Filter the list of users based on the value of this field (smth like if Current User → Last activity time is less then 5 minutes ago).

The downside of this solution is that it’ll cause a load on a DB, especially if there are many users and if your app will try to update last activity time frequently.

Note - I haven’t tried this solution in person, so implementation details might be a bit different, and I can’t guarantee it’ll work 100%

Best regards, Victor.

[Louis33]

@Victor

There is no built-in way to do such things in Adalo.
You could create a workaround:

• add a field to Users collection, call it “Last activity time”
• update this field when user does something in the app (for example, enters the chat screen)
• Filter the list of users based on the value of this field (smth like if Current User → Last activity time is less then 5 minutes ago).

The downside of this solution is that it’ll cause a load on a DB, especially if there are many users and if your app will try to update last activity time frequently.

Note - I haven’t tried this solution in person, so implementation details might be a bit different, and I can’t guarantee it’ll work 100%

Best regards, Victor.

Hello Victor, thank you very much for your feedback it’s very cool ! I will try this solution then and hope it will work

Thank you so much Victor !

[Louis33]

@Victor

• add a field to Users collection, call it “Last activity time”
• update this field when user does something in the app (for example, enters the chat screen)
• Filter the list of users based on the value of this field (smth like if Current User → Last activity time is less then 5 minutes ago).

Sorry but how do you do “last activity was less than 5 minutes ago”?

[Yongki]

Hi @Louis33 ,

Check this thread.

Tutorial App Setting, Still Online and Forced Logout

Hi All, Here is cloneable app. App Setting collection is 1-record only and used to contain global variables, we can access it using list disguised as button. (login and signup button) To make list of a button, by clicking vertical 3 dots in left panel. Still Online is toggle (true/false) property in users collection, is used to make visible green ellipse at user’s icon (at top right corner). Along with last online, this could be useful when doing bulk update to check how much time has elap…