Hey everyone. Other than the Login Audit Trail, i...
# general
j
Hey everyone. Other than the Login Audit Trail, is there a way to monitor how active a user is while logged in to the NetSuite account?
r
system notes, activities, user notes, emails, if you wanted to get real in depth you could add google analytics script and put userid in param and see activity by page.
j
if user isn’t actually DOING anything, just clicking around though
how would I add google analytics to NetSuite….?
r
is this a performance review (bad employee) situation or a trying to see what the heck they are doing to create erros scenario?
j
former
well not really….just wanna track behaviour/activity
for mgmt/audit purposes
not an errors issue
r
you would add a client script that insert the GA script. dynamically in the client script you would add the page for context and user id.
j
I did already built a logger for Record Edit/View so I can see where people have been but it only works for certain records, and really I’m wanting a page log of where people have been within the system
r
then apply that script to all the primary recors the person touches
j
yeah that’s not quite enough, ideally I’d wanna know every page they went to including ones that aren’t records
r
I am not sure of native NS paghe view logs but you can def do with GA
it should be about work output IMHO
j
but again, how would I do GA on say their dashboard.
well of course
sometimes hard to track though.
I was just surprised there isn’t anything built in….like some sort of activity log
r
is their dashboard locked down?
j
not sure what you mean but probably the answer is no
r
published dashboard
j
no
j
this is just a general thing really. Like say the CEO said “we want to know all the pages this person went to in NS on Thursday”
(when they were in a meeting with our competitor)
or whatevs
r
find a way that everyone needs your new fancy dashboard that is custom written and has GA in it
j
that would only help w/DB tho
dashboardd
r
yes
I explained other pages earlier but not all as you have seaid
j
yeah
I was just hoping for a general solution
surprised it doesn’t exist
most web applications have some sort of pagelog
my lil Record Access Log thing is pretty handy at least when someone is like “I got a weird message” and I already know what sales order they were on 🙂
they think I’m psychic
r
I think you tell your CEO to work on how to performance manage people. Its not about quantity of clicks. its about POs process per day, 360 internal feedback, cust satisfaction etc. or some other metric.
but I agree netsuite is a closed system and frustrating some times
in gov world they were monitoring mouse movement as way to judge people working from home. so people hooked them to fans that move
j
lol
I’m not actually necessarily solving a real problem here, just asking if it would be possible. Obviously there are ways to measure productivity that aren’t tech solutions. I was literally just wondering if NS had a pagelog / activity monitor thing
there are other reasons this could be helpful, for usability purposes (how many pages does someone have to navigate to do <thing> etc)
r
oh it does.... you just cant see it. but I agree with your quest
j
yah
I figure it’s there somewhere as I assume APM uses it at least in part
r
you can use other software to snipe the traffic. not unheard of. you wont see the data but can see the urls hit and back track from there.
c
I'd push this back and get the IT department to do it (if you have managed desktops/browsers). Obviously not an option if it's BYOD. You can sell it to the higher ups by saying that the IT dept can also provide details of non-work site accesses/durations, which is something you wouldn't be able to provide 😉
s
This would definitely help, I have a search that shows how many transactions did they performed but it doesn't show saved searches or reports created or pages they went to for checking product diagram or specifications
j
Unfortunately given our company structure I won’t be able to make changes. Structure = team of 35 using NetSuite (with me as general NS Admin / IT person) which was recently absorbed by big organization (>10,000 employees).
big org not on NS
our (smaller) team is all remote workers, many on BYOD. Many who aren’t doing transactions.
Really just wanted a way to monitor NS usage/behaviour in general. Ah well.