Admin mode timeout

Problem to solve

The new admin mode (&2158) is a nice feature, but it happens sometimes that you enter admin mode but forget to leave.

Intended users

• Sidney (Systems Administrator)

User experience goal

An automatic logout from admin mode should occur.

Proposal

• The Admin Mode should get an additional option: 'Maximum inactivity time in Admin Mode (min)':
  • Empty field or 0 => No automatic logout
  • Otherwise: Admin Mode will be locked after specified time. A counting down (JavaScript) timer like in online banking would be nice.

Detection of inactivity time:

• Best case: Timer will be reset only when the user access admin specific sites (maybe more expensive as a check is requires on each site access if it is an admin action or not)
• Simple case: General inactivity of the user (maybe easier to implement and less impact on performance as only a check of last user activity time is requires)

Links / references

Thanks to recent documentation improvements (!104508 (merged)), it's now clearly documented here that Admin Mode ends when:

• the user turns it off
• 6 hours elapses, regardless of activity