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Live board and live view

See who is tracking right now and how their agents are doing, and start an audited live view where policy allows it.

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The Live board shows who in your scope is tracking right now, on which app and project, and whether their desktop agent is healthy. Live view goes one step further: with a reason, and only where the person’s policy allows it, you can watch their screen for a short session — and they see that you are.

Who can do this:OwnerAdminManagerTeam leadAuditorEveryone listed can open the Live board for people in their scope. Only owners, admins and managers can start a live view.

Open the Live board#

Go to WorkspaceLive board. It refreshes on its own every 20 seconds — the badge at the top right says when it last updated.

Neha’s Live board in the demo workspace. The demo agents were last seen yesterday, so everyone shows as Offline.

The tiles at the top#

TileWhat it means
Tracking nowHow many people in your scope are tracking at this moment.
Tracked todayTotal tracked time today across your scope.
Avg activity levelThe average interaction level. It measures input, not value — see the caveat under the cards.
Pending approvalsTimesheets waiting for you. Opens Approvals.
Unassigned timeShare of tracked time with no project yet.

What each state means#

Filter the cards with All, Tracking, Idle / away and Offline, or search by person, app or project.

StateWhat it means
TrackingCapture is running.
IdleNo keyboard or mouse input within the policy’s idle threshold.
AwayNo input past the away threshold.
PausedThe person paused their timer.
Private timePrivate time is on — nothing is captured.
Outside windowOutside the policy’s capture window, so nothing is being recorded.
StoppedNot tracking.
OfflineNo heartbeat from the agent in the last 3 minutes.
No agentNo desktop agent enrolled yet.

A second badge shows the agent’s health: Healthy, Needs attention (for example a missing screen recording permission), Offline or Deauthorized. Click a name to open that person’s page.

Working hours are a capture fence, not a schedule

“Outside window” only means the agent isn’t capturing. TimeLogger never marks anyone present, late or absent.

Start a live view#

Live view is off unless the person’s tracking policy turns it on, and the person must be online. When both are true, a Live view button appears on their card and at the top of their member page.

  1. Choose Live view

    On the person’s card on the Live board, or on their page under Members.

  2. Pick the device

    If they have more than one authorised device, choose the one to view.

  3. Write a reason

    At least 10 characters, for example “Client escalation on ticket #4821 — need to see the error they’re getting”. The reason is shared with the person and kept in the audit log.

  4. Choose Start live view

    The viewer opens and waits for the first frame. A banner reminds you that Live view is visible to the member. Choose End when you’re done.

What the member sees

The person is notified that a live view has started, and sees a persistent indicator in the agent window and on its tray icon for the whole session. Ending the session removes it. Sessions end on their own after 30 minutes, and frames are never kept afterwards.

The audit log records when the session started (with the reason), when you first viewed it and when it ended.

Questions#

Why is there no Live view button?
Either the person is offline, their policy doesn’t allow live view, or your role can’t start one (team leads and auditors can’t). Owners and admins can check the policy on the person’s Effective policy tab.
Can I record a live view?
No. Live view shows the latest frame only while the session is open. Nothing is saved for later.
Does the board show what people type or which websites they read?
No. It shows the current app, project and an activity level based on counts of keyboard and mouse input. Key content is never recorded.

Something unclear or out of date? Tell your workspace admin, or write to the TimeLogger team from Settings — we update these guides with every release.