Admin Keepalive Timer [Support Thread]

[DrByte]

PCL Compliance.

In any case it seems to be a US requirement, I have never heard anything about this in Europe.

It's also applicable in Europe. But, let's not argue about that. You don't care about security, and you want to override it. See below:

Secondly, why do I need to create a separate Admin profile to leave the admin page open?
My PC is not in any public place, and it will only be open when I am in front of my PC screen.

Why? Just to ensure that no unauthorized person can hijack your site. But, again, you've said you don't care about security. So, read on:

I like to have the "who's online" page up just to pop in now and then to see if there's anyone there.

Kjell Aa

If you want to do that, it's fine, as long as you create a separate Admin profile with permissions to only that page, and then leave that admin user logged in someplace with a refresh every 15 min or less.
Just don't leave someone logged in to an admin ID that has permission to access all the other parts of your admin.

Third, where excactly do I put "Updating Manually" ?

You said you want the Who's Online page to stay up. To do that, open the Who's Online page, and notice that on the top right corner (assuming you're using the latest version of Zen Cart) there's an auto-refresh interval selection which offers choices of between 5 seconds and 10 minutes.
When you do that, it will keep refreshing before a non-activity timeout can occur, thus it will be always logged in.
And, for the sake of other readers of this discussion, that also means that anyone who walks by the computer will have complete access to your entire store's admin (according to whatever user profile you're logged in with) and can engage in unsupervised activity in your admin even if you're not present. The onus is on you to calculate that risk and any liability associated with it.

[Kjell Aa]

Just to ensure that no unauthorized person can hijack your site. But, again, you've said you don't care about security. So, read on:

I do care about security.
Where do I say otherwise?

My PC is in my home, and security is taken care of through other means.
I don't know how this is where you are located, but up here, "your home is your castle" applies.

Kjell