Show users online

nant wrote: ... we have nothing like this.

I had some ideas via PMS. One of them was to mark the fake users with a user group or certain field value. Then hide the original online-status and display a fake one instead.

I am aware of the fact, that online-status is no real field/value, but that is not necessary, IMHO.
I thought of CB Conditional to check for a "fake" user... then hide original status, and display a fake status. Should also work for user-lists.

Another possible solution could be CB AutoActions. It might also check for "fake" user type. Then show/hide statuses. Or even alter the "show on profile" property. Or alter the CSS class of online-status by javascript (so no extra fake status field is needed.

Just some rough thoughts.

I had some ideas via PMS. One of them was to mark the fake users with a user group or certain field value. Then hide the original online-status and display a fake one instead.

Hi,

Yes, this is exactly what I want. That "fake" are still "really" online.
Why? Because users appear online in several places, in profile, in userslist, in kunena and Tchat. If I just made a change in the online field, this is good for profile and user list, but not for 2 others.
I watched an extension , I expect the service response to my question...

Thanks

They need to have an active Joomla session to be considered online. I suppose you could login the fake user, which will generate them a session in _session. Next use CRON to constantly keep _session "time" up to date every few hours or however long your session lifetime is configured within Joomla global configuration. This should keep their session alive and thus be considered online all the time.

If you want to do this with CB then you can use CB Auto Actions and its Internal General trigger with the Login action. Next setup CRON to trigger the internal general using its url within CB Auto Actions > Config > Internal. This would just keep logging them in for you. Example as follows.

Type: Login/Logout
Trigger: internalGeneral
User: Specific (supply the fake users user_id in the now displayed input box)
Access: Everybody
Mode: Login
Method: Username
Username: [username]

The above will force login the user everytime you access the internal general URL, which can be setup to be ran by CRON.

Okay,
But I don't understand one thing, how do I specify CRON to activate this action in particular ?
Thanks

You need to contact your host for setting up CRON. We can't help you with that as it's host by host based. Some provide a terminal, some provide a nice GUI, I can't say for sure what your host does. The URL to use in CRON is provided within CB Auto Actions > Config > Internal, but you can also just click the link daily/weekly and activate it manually if you wanted.

Okay, so if I understand, I make an Auto Action and then I click manually on the link >Config>Internal, the task should trigger.
If I have 10 Auto Action, 10 will trigger at the same time, right?