How to Determine the state of the Citrix connection

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RobUCSD via AccessMonster.com

I have an Access 2003 MDE front end distributed on a 4 server citrix farm.
The configuration for citrix in our org with respect to auto logOff is after
10min of inactivity, the application is disconnected but not closed. After
another 10min of inactivity citrix closes my application and citrix for the
particular user who has been activityless for a tota of 20min.

What I want to do is determine when the database looses the connection after
the 10min, and then pop-up a screen that warns the user that they need to
reconnect to the database via the citrix dialog box. If they see the form and
want to reconnect they can do that or if a total of 20min goes by then my app
closes with citrix.

The reason I want to do this is that when citrix disconects from the database
after the first 10min of inactivity, my users have no way of knowing they
aren't connected and they enter in data that is only saved if the realize
they need to connect to citrix.

So in short, I just need to know when the fe is disconnected from the
database and then I can popUp the form. Thank in advance for your help. Rob
 
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Scott McDaniel

I have an Access 2003 MDE front end distributed on a 4 server citrix farm.
The configuration for citrix in our org with respect to auto logOff is after
10min of inactivity, the application is disconnected but not closed. After
another 10min of inactivity citrix closes my application and citrix for the
particular user who has been activityless for a tota of 20min.

What I want to do is determine when the database looses the connection after
the 10min, and then pop-up a screen that warns the user that they need to
reconnect to the database via the citrix dialog box. If they see the form and
want to reconnect they can do that or if a total of 20min goes by then my app
closes with citrix.

I'm not sure you can detect when Citrix closes the connection. You can build your own inactivity timer and set it to
(perhaps) 8 minutes to be ahead of the Citrix timer:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210297
The reason I want to do this is that when citrix disconects from the database
after the first 10min of inactivity, my users have no way of knowing they
aren't connected and they enter in data that is only saved if the realize
they need to connect to citrix.

So in short, I just need to know when the fe is disconnected from the
database and then I can popUp the form. Thank in advance for your help. Rob

Are you sure Citrix is disconnecting the FE from the BE? I've not worked much with Citrix, but have with TS and normally
the session is ended, and Citrix doesn't interact with the actual Access connection (it just closes the session, then xx
minutes later it kills the disconnected session). I could be wrong about this, of course ...

Scott McDaniel
scott@takemeout_infotrakker.com
www.infotrakker.com
 
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RobUCSD via AccessMonster.com

Thanks for your input, this is a reasonable solution. Have a great day. Rob

Scott said:
I have an Access 2003 MDE front end distributed on a 4 server citrix farm.
The configuration for citrix in our org with respect to auto logOff is after
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want to reconnect they can do that or if a total of 20min goes by then my app
closes with citrix.

I'm not sure you can detect when Citrix closes the connection. You can build your own inactivity timer and set it to
(perhaps) 8 minutes to be ahead of the Citrix timer:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210297
The reason I want to do this is that when citrix disconects from the database
after the first 10min of inactivity, my users have no way of knowing they
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
So in short, I just need to know when the fe is disconnected from the
database and then I can popUp the form. Thank in advance for your help. Rob

Are you sure Citrix is disconnecting the FE from the BE? I've not worked much with Citrix, but have with TS and normally
the session is ended, and Citrix doesn't interact with the actual Access connection (it just closes the session, then xx
minutes later it kills the disconnected session). I could be wrong about this, of course ...

Scott McDaniel
scott@takemeout_infotrakker.com
www.infotrakker.com
 

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