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What-I-DID! feature provides automatic counting of the user's keystrokes
and mouse clicks. Companies use this feature to record the:
1) Utilization of the PC
2) Productivity of workers who are doing heavy data entry in Windows
All What-I-DID! monitoring is unknown to the worker. The logsumry.rpt
and the logtimes.rpt reports report this data and show the productivity.
Keystrokes and clicks are counted and stored for each Application &
Window that the user enters. If a window is up for less than your
user defined parameter for seconds, the keystroke and click counts
are carried forward to the next window to reduce output clutter.
This eliminates the many yes/no boxes, etc. that may appear.
You can sort and compare the productivity and utilization figures in the
logtimes file to achieve different types of reports, if you have any product
compatible with Paradox files. What-I-DID has a small memory footprint of
only 50K bytes. It uses global memory to retain keystrokes and flushes the
log data to the file after any keyboard idle period of 5 minutes. So you
should not experience any loss of performance while What-I-DID does its thing.
How To Set Up
If different users use the same computer, make sure your network login
establishes a DOS environment variable called "USER". This can be done
as part of any network login script, e.g. "SET USER=%LOGIN_NAME% works
in Novell Netware Login Scripts. What-I-DID will read this DOS variable
to log the usage against that username. If this name is not found,
all the entries in the Paradox 4.0 file "LOGTIMES" will have the
user name "SUPERVIS". Leaving it blank is adequate for single user
installations.
Add the whatidid.exe as an icon to the user's Windows startup.grp.
When the user boots into Windows, the What-I-Did program will be
automatically loaded, but is INVISIBLE. It will not appear in any task
list and the user cannot activate it. Press CONTROL-F12 to activate it
and make it visible. F)ile S)etup allows you to change the seconds
between windows limit. If a user is in a Window, like a yes/no prompt
window for less than ___ seconds, What-I-DID will carry over the
count of the keystrokes and mouse-clicks to the next Window.
This is initially set at 16 seconds. F)ile R)eport and S)ummary provide
the log reports of the usage.
You can also check/un-check the option to show the opening billboard,
and to play back sound when What-I-DID comes up and when it flushes
activity to disk. You may want to turn these off so NOTHING is visible
to the user!
The layout of the file report is:
"UserName", "A10"
"LogDate", "D"
"LogTime", "A8"
"AppName", "A30"
"AppWindow", "A30"
"No Keystrokes", "N8.0"
"No Mouse Clicks", "N8.0"
"Actual Stamp", "N"
"TimeinWindow", "A8"
"SecsinWindow", "N8.0"