Question

I have an issue, where by each user in my user list is showing as on-line when I know they’re not.

When the page is loaded, they show as offline, but if I refresh the page, they all show as on-line. I’m assuming this is because I’m programmatically accessing their profile information (CommonProfile) to get the data to show on the gridview?

Is there any way to get the profile information without triggering the IsOnline property to be true?

Update:
Sorry, code is here. Please be gentle, I’m relatively new to c# & asp.net and I’m still learning.

The code is collecting information from Membership user and the common profiles and adding the fields to a datatable so that i can display the results in a gridview.

MembershipUserCollection usersList = Membership.GetAllUsers();
MembershipUserCollection filteredUsers = new MembershipUserCollection();

foreach (MembershipUser user in usersList)
{
    if (!Roles.IsUserInRole(user.UserName, "Admin") && !Roles.IsUserInRole(user.UserName, "Engineering"))
    {
        if (txtFilterCustomerNo.Text.Length > 0)
        {
            ProfileCommon PC = Profile.GetProfile(user.UserName);
            if (PC.CompanyAccountNo == txtFilterCustomerNo.Text.ToUpper())
            {
                filteredUsers.Add(user);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            filteredUsers.Add(user);
        }
    }
}

txtFilterCustomerNo.Text = null;

foreach (MembershipUser user in filteredUsers)
{
    userProfile = Profile.GetProfile(user.UserName);
    string[] userRoles = Roles.GetRolesForUser(user.UserName);

    DataRow orderLine = dataSet.Tables["UserAccounts"].NewRow();
    orderLine["USER_NAME"] = user.UserName;
    orderLine["CREATED"] = user.CreationDate;
    orderLine["LAST_LOGIN"] = user.LastLoginDate;
    orderLine["PASSWORD_CHANGED"] = user.LastLoginDate;
    orderLine["ACTIVE"] = user.IsApproved;
    orderLine["ONLINE"] = user.IsOnline;
    orderLine["LOCKED"] = user.IsLockedOut;
    orderLine["CUSTOMER_NO"] = userProfile.CompanyAccountNo;
    orderLine["HAS_INVENTORY"] = userProfile.HasOwnInventory;
    orderLine["ORDER"] = userRoles.Contains("Order");
    orderLine["REPAIR"] = userRoles.Contains("Repair");
    orderLine["WARRANTY"] = userRoles.Contains("Warranty");
    orderLine["COMMISSIONING"] = userRoles.Contains("Commissioning");
    orderLine["ACCOUNT"] = userRoles.Contains("Account");
    dataSet.Tables["UserAccounts"].Rows.Add(orderLine);
}

if (dataSet.Tables.Contains("UserAccounts"))
{
    GridView1.DataSource = dataSet.Tables["UserAccounts"];
}

Answer 1

If you simply looked at the different overloads of GetUser, you would see that some of them take a Boolean called userIsOnline. If you specify this as false, it will not update the last online timestamp, and will not list them as online.

var user = Membership.GetUser(userid, false);

EDIT:

I see you are using GetAllUsers() rather than GetUser(). There are some problems with GetAllUsers() and you cannot rely on the IsOnline property. Instead, you need to check the LastActivityDate field and figure out the difference between that and the current DateTime. If the amount of time is greater than what you consider “Online” to be, then they are offline, otherwise online.