Time outs

After a web page is loaded, there is no sustained connection to the web server. When you open a page, you are only connected during the time you are actually downloading the information. After the download is complete your browser no longer exists as far as the web server is concerned. A time-out period exists to give you the illusion that you are "connected". Views are unloaded from the server’s memory and the user signed out when the time-out expires. By default, this is set to 30 minutes. This setting is changed in the database. If no request is made for a given user/view combination within the specified time-out period, the view are unloaded from the server's memory. The time-out value should be set carefully so that it is not so short that users keep reverting back to the original rotation every time they get a phone call and is not so long that users hold onto their data for a long time after they are no longer using it.