Document edit time?

Rhino Developer
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Hi list,
In the 3dm file format, a section is written with edit time information. Is this information available in the Rhino API?
For example:
T i m e O p e n \ 1 0 0 7 / 2 0 / 2 0 1 4 1 7 : 0 4 : 3 9 F¾°K € @F T i m e S u b j e c t \ 1 0
M o d e l l i n g ¾» a € @X T i m e D e s c r i p t i o n \ 1 0 N o d e s c r i p t i o n J¯€9 € @V
T i m e C l o s e \ 1 0 0 7 / 2 0 / 2 0 1 4 1 7 : 2 2 : 1 1

Kind regards,
Peter Kompier.

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What is available is when the document was created, and when the document was lasted saved. Using RhinoCommon, you would use RhinoDoc.DateCreated and RhinoDoc.DateLastEdited properties.

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Rhino.FileIO.File3dm also has support for reading information like this out of external files

4

Hi Steve and Dale,
The information in the file is more than only the file attributes. It looks like the worksessions of the imported template file. For a link with project management software i try to find document specific worksession information.
Without the zoo, is this worksession information written in the Windows eventlog or anyware else?

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Hi Peter,

Rhino does not have a mechanism that tracks how long the user has worked on a model (or how long he has had the model open). It is certainly possible to write a plug-in to track how long a model is open in the editor.

Also, if you turn on usage tracking on the Zoo, you can track when a user get a license from the Zoo, and when that license is returned. But, the Zoo does not track model-specific open times.

Does this help?

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Thanks Dale. I already made such a work session monitor. It writes session information in the windows eventlog. It also tracks and compensate document idle time after 15 minutes without a selection. A sync app in ms Project imports these sessions in subtasks to track project progression. What I was looking for is a way to track down edit time in old and external created documents.