asked on 5/21/2012

sharepoint session id

I am storing some user settings for a SharePoint site in a list. I want to persist these while the user is in an active session, but remove them when they come back. If this was asp, I would simply store the session id and compare it to the current session id. I don't necessarily need a session id, just a way to determine if they are a return visitor. I don't want to have to enable session state if this will slow down the app. How should I handle this?

Microsoft SharePoint .NET Programming ASP.NET

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Ted Bouskill

5/26/2012

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5/22/2012

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jackjohnson44

5/22/2012

ASKER

I wasn't too clear on my description. I only need to know if a user left and came back. If this was asp.net I could put something in the session_start code. Is there something like that for SharePoint? I don't need sessions or cookies. I am just using this as an example. I could easily write code that writes to a database a time stamp for the last page view of the user. If the current time - last page view was greater than 20 min (just an example), I would know that the user left and came back. Both of these examples require a lot of overhead. I was thinking that SharePoint would have something built in that I could leverage.

Ted Bouskill

5/23/2012

Have you looked at the usage metrics that are built in?

jackjohnson44

5/25/2012

ASKER

No. I don't see where you are going with that.

Ted Bouskill

5/26/2012

The usage metrics can show multiple visits. I'm still not clear about why you want to detect that they left and came back. Can you give more information?