Hi All, I am wondering if anyone here has used Dynamo for time-based queries - or know how it might be done. For example, how long it is taking to open a model per user, how long it takes to sync, or even how many hours are spent working on sheets as compared to modelling. I am looking to gather this information from each of our projects and push it to an officewide database. This could be helpful in costing/resourcing more complex projects as well as monitoring large project teams that may be having speed issues. Many thanks in advance!

I can think of no less than 10 current jobs of ours that those 4 examples would benefit to a huge extent. Great work @Andreas_Dieckmann :slightly_smiling_face:

Apologies for dragging up an old thread, but @Andreas_Dieckmann, can you let me know how i can install this package from github? I can’t find it in the Package search within Dynamo itself. Thanks in advance

What version of Dynamo are you in? It’s certainly available on the package manager here: Dynamo Packages

Thanks Jacob, but that link just takes me to the homepage of https://dynamopackages.com/ If i try searching for the package “journalysis” , nothing comes up: [image]

Yeah, I should really put that on the package manager - here’s hoping I’ll get that done this month. Meanwhile you can download the entire repo here and then just take the nodes you need: https://github.com/andydandy74/Journalysis/archive/master.zip

There is indeed. Look forWorksharingSession.LoadedLinks and then feed the output into LoadedLink.LoadDuration.

Thanks for the tip @Andreas_Dieckmann. I thought i should give an update: I added the load duration and the total total of the loaded link durations, but this was still significantly less than the real overall opening time - presumably there are other processes that take time? After digging through the SLOG files, what I ended up doing was to get the DateTime of the '>Open:Local ’ worksharing event and the first event containing the string ‘<WSConfig’, and then find the time difference using the ‘TimeSpan.ByDateDifference’ node. This is giving me opening durations which appear to be much closer to the actual durations measured using a stopwatch. The only issue i’m having now is that the worksharing log files appear to be wiped periodically, so opening a log file on monday morning doesn’t appear to contain the data from friday. Have you come across this? Thanks Paul

Thanks for the info. I think the WSConfig part is about applying the selection of which worksets are going to be opened. I had originally included that in the load time calculation but we got some scarily high numbers for sessions where users went for coffee breaks while in the Select Worksets dialogue. Will see if I can filter out such cases. Regarding the logs: make sure to also process the *.slog.bak file - that‘ll give you a few more days‘ worth of data.

Yeah, it’s not ideal admittedly! I’m assuming there isn’t actually a worksharing event triggered when the model finally opens, so there’s no timestamp? Thanks for the .bak file tip, will look at that.

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paulstevens90 February 11, 2020, 3:25pm 14

Thanks very much Andreas. Regarding tracking time - is there a method for getting the Load Duration including loading of linked models?

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