ActivConnect Data Glossary

Click on a view type below to see an alphabetized list of the different data fields found within that view of ActivConnect- including their data type, a short description and associated subscription plan(s).

daily_application_summary:

column_name

data_type

Plans

Description

accountid INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The ActivTrak account number
active_day_count INT64
  • Professional/Premium

Active Days are days where a user has met the minimum number of productive hours per day for it to be considered a work day. 

Active Days are used to calculate averages, such as average productive hours per day- when a user's productive hours are divided by the number of Active Days in a given time period.

activity_type STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
There are three main activity type classifications ''Application', 'Site', and 'Search'
activity_week DATE
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The first day of the week
application STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The cleaned executable name
application_or_site STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium

A combination of Application and Site objects

Note: Different from Application_Site, this column displays only the Site details for web applications

browser_site STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Applications with site or URL content ex: Google Chrome(slack.com)
category STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium

The activity category classified in the ActivTrak application. Ex: Business Tools, Social Media.

Learn more about activity categories here

computer_id INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Computer ID
day_of_week STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Sunday - Saturday
day_type STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Weekend / Weekday
duration_seconds INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The activity duration in seconds
executable STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The name of the application running, usually in its raw format. Ex: Slack.exe
first_activity_datetime DATETIME
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Start of Day per user based on the first reported computer activity
host STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The extracted domain or domain with subdomain URL format.
local_date DATE
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Date only with Time Zone conversion
passive_type_id INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Identifies some subtypes of a passive status, like passive locked. Used to set a 0 duration seconds for activities that were deemed to be different from regular passive activities
productivity STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium

There are three productivity classifications:

Productive

Unproductive 

Undefined 

user_id INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
ActivTrak User ID
user_name STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium

If a user alias was defined in ActivTrak, this field will populate the user alias record. If not, a user record will be shown, matching the behavior in the ActivTrak app.

Learn more about user alias' here

website STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium

There are three activity type classifications:

application

site

search

daily_user_summary:

column_name

data_type

Plans

Description

accountid

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The ActivTrak account number

active_day_count

INT64

  • Professional/Premium

Active Days are days where a user has met the minimum number of productive hours per day for it to be considered a work day.

Active Days are used to calculate averages, such as average productive hours per day, when a user's productive hours are divided by the number of Active Days in a given time period.

active_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The amount of time reported by the end user's computer (screen time) excluding Passive Time.

Learn more about passive time settings here.

activity_week

DATE

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The first day of the week

attention_shift_activity_count

INT64

  • Professional/Premium

An Attention Shift represents the number of occurrences in which a user exceeds the maximum threshold set for switching between productive applications/sites or screens within a minute

Note: A switch from a productive to unproductive activity will also count as an attention shift in the first occurrence.

Example based on distinct application/site: Switching between Email and PowerPoint and Slack within one minute.

Example based on distinct screens: Opening 4+ unique PowerPoint presentations or 5+ unique Word documents within 1 minute

Default thresholds:

Application / Sites = 2

Screen Views = 4

The threshold is configurable in Analytics > Settings Page

break_count

INT64

  • Professional/Premium

The number of breaks (off-screen time) a user is taking throughout the day.

This is calculated by counting the number of times a user's computer is inactive for more than 5 consecutive minutes

break_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Professional/Premium

The break time (off-screen time) in seconds throughout the day

collaboration_activity_count

INT64

  • Professional/Premium

The number of collaboration activity occurrences per user per day

collaboration_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Professional/Premium

Collaboration is considered the working time in which an employee is engaged with others to coach, assign, align, brainstorm, socialize, and problem-solve. These activities are usually performed through Chat & Messaging or Meeting Software

day_of_week

STRING

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

Sunday - Saturday

day_type

STRING

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

Weekend / Weekday

first_activity_datetime

DATETIME

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The start of the day per user based on the first reported computer activity

first_activity_minutes_in_day

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The start of the day in INTEGER format per user based on the first reported computer activity

focused_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Professional/Premium

Working time in which an employee is engaged and working on a single task for an extended period of time without disruption or completing multi-tasking activities (also called attention shifts)

focused_session_count

INT64

  • Professional/Premium

A count of uninterrupted focused time sessions

Note: An uninterrupted focus session is defined as any continuous series of logs on a single task that are not less than one minute

focused_session_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Professional/Premium

Focused Session Duration Seconds reflects the total amount of time employees operate without distractions or multitasking.

It is calculated by adding up the time of each focused session

last_activity_datetime

DATETIME

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The end of day per user based on the last reported computer activity

last_activity_minutes_in_day

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The end of day in INTEGER format per user based on the last reported computer activity.

local_date

DATE

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

Date only with Time Zone conversion

location

STRING

  • Professional/Premium

Location is based on where a user spends the majority of their time each day by looking at the anonymized “network signature” (public IP address + unique WiFi identifiers) where an activity takes place There are three location categories

Remote

Office

Office/Remote

Learn more about Location here

multitasking_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Professional/Premium

Multi-tasking activity performed within productive applications consists of general administrative business tasks while an attention shift event is happening

Note: Each Attention Shift event captures the time of these activities for the next 3 minutes (attention residue), capping the last activity to 60 seconds max.

Excludes: Activities classified as Chat & Messaging or Meeting Software.

See Attention Shifts for more details.

non_business_activity_count

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The number of occurrences per user per day of non-business activities (unproductive and undefined)

non_business_activity_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

Non-Business Hours/Day reflects the average hours in a day in which an employee is engaging in unproductive or undefined activities

Learn more about activity classification here.

productive_active_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The amount of time in applications classified as Productive or sites excluding Passive Time

productive_activity_count

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The number of productive activity occurrences per user per day

productive_passive_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The amount of time in applications classified as Productive or sites excluding Active Time

productive_session_count

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

A count of uninterrupted productive time sessions.

Note: An uninterrupted productive session is defined as any continuous series of logs in Productive Applications or Sites that are not less than 1 minute

productive_session_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

Productivity Sessions Duration Seconds reflect the total amount of time users operate without unproductive disruption

This is calculated by adding up the time of each productive session

total_activity_count

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The total activity count per user per day across all productivity classifications

total_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The amount of time reported by the end user's computer (Active and Passive) (screen time).

undefined_active_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

Undefined is used for applications or sites that haven't been classified as Productive or Unproductive.

This field displays the amount of time in unclassified activities excluding Passive Time

undefined_activity_count

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The number of undefined activity occurrences per user per day

undefined_passive_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

Undefined is used for applications or sites that haven't been classified as Productive or Unproductive.

This field displays the amount of time spent in unclassified activities excluding Passive Time

unproductive_active_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The amount of time spent in Unproductive applications or sites excluding Active Time

unproductive_activity_count

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The number of unproductive activity occurrences per user per day

unproductive_passive_duration_seconds

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

The amount of time spent in Unproductive applications or sites excluding Passive Time

user_focus_goal

NUMERIC

  • Professional/Premium

The goal set for focused hours per day.

Default value: 3.0 hrs

The default value can be customized by team in Insights > Benchmarks and Goals 

Learn more about benchmarks and goals here

user_id

INT64

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

ActivTrak User ID

user_name

STRING

  • Essentials/Advanced

  • Professional/Premium

If a user alias was defined in ActivTrak, this field will populate the user alias record. Otherwise a user record will be shown, matching the behavior in the ActivTrak app.

Learn more about user alias' here

user_productivity_goal

NUMERIC

  • Professional/Premium

The goal set for productive hours per day.

Default value: 6.0 hrs

The default value can be customized by team in Insights > Benchmarks and Goals 

Learn more about benchmarks and goals here

utilization_level

STRING

  • Professional/Premium

A measure of employee engagement and wellbeing.

Users are labeled as Healthy, Overutilized or Underutilized based on their average Productive Hrs/Day relative to the Productive Hrs/Day Goal set for their team:

  • Healthy: Productive Hrs/Day are within 30% (+/-) of the Productive Hrs/Day Goal

  • Overutilized: Productive Hrs/Day are at least 31% higher than the Productive Hrs/Day Goal

  • Underutilized: Productive Hrs/Day are at least 31% lower than the Productive Hrs/Day Goal

events:

column_name

data_type

Plans

Description

accountid INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The ActivTrak account number
active_state STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
A user's activity level:
  • Active: Using keyboard/mouse
  • Passive: Not using keyboard/mouse
  • Passive Locked: The computer is locked/asleep; filtered by default

Learn more about passive time settings here.

activity_type STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium

There are three main activity type classifications

Application

Site

Search

activity_week DATE
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The first day of the week
alarm_action STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium

An additional column to 'Alarms_Triggered', it's  categorized with the type of alarm action configured

Ex: 'Email', 'Popup', 'Screenshot', 'Terminate', 'Webhook'

Learn more about alarm actions here

alarm_email_action INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Activity with email triggered from configured alarm actions
alarm_popup_action INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Activity with pop triggered from configured alarm actions
alarm_screenshot_action INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Activity with screenshot triggered from configured alarm actions
alarm_terminate_action INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Activity with terminate action triggered from configured alarm actions
alarm_webhook_action INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium

Activity with webhook action triggered from configured alarm actions

Learn more about alarm actions here

alarms_triggered INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
1 or 0 value: Events associated with alarms will return a 1
app_site_approval_status STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium

Application / Site approval status based on its productivity classification

Unapproved = Uncategorized and/or Undefined

Approved = Categorized and defined

application STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The cleaned executable name
application_or_site STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Note: Different from Application_Site, this column displays only the Site details for web applications
browser_site STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium

Applications with site or URL content

Ex: Google Chrome(slack.com)

category STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium

The activity category classified in the ActivTrak application

Ex: Business Tools, Social Media.

Learn more about activity categories here

clean_url STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The URL strings after 'https://', 'http://' and "www."
computer_id INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Computer ID
computer_name STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The managed computer name
dataset_version STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The version number of the table schema so you can easily track any new field changes
day_of_week STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Sunday - Saturday
day_type STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Weekend / Weekday
device_ip STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Managed device LAN IP
duration_sec INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Activity duration in seconds
executable STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The name of the app running, usually in its raw format. Ex: Slack.exe
full_url STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The full unfiltered URL
local_date DATE
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Date only with Time Zone conversion
local_datetime DATETIME
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Time converted based on configured application Time Zone
local_time TIME
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Time only with Time Zone conversion
logon_domain STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Active Directory domain-attached computers will show the domain name here. If not attached to a domain, the computername will be shown based on the operating system. Mac devices usually show computername and Google Chrome will not show anything. 
period_of_day STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Day period classification: Morning, Afternoon, Night & Overnight values
potential_file_transfer BOOL
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Flags activities involving the following objects: OneDrive, DropBox, FTP, SFTP, and USB file transfer activities
primary_domain STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Often the same as the local system name, though not always. If the computer is attached to an Active Directory domain, that domain name will show up here based on the operating system. If not, it's typical for Windows machines to use "WORKGROUPS", Chrome to use "Google". Mac devices typically don't show anything related to the primary domain.
productivity STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium

There are 3 productivity classifications:

Productive Unproductive Undefined 

productivity_state STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
A combination of 'productivity' and 'active_state'. :
  • Productive Active
  • Productive Passive
  • Unproductive Active
  • Unproductive Passive
  • Undefined Active
  • Undefined Passive
public_ip STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Managed device WAN IP
search_term STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Displays the entered search term by a user in search-related activities.
site STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The extracted domain or domain with subdomain URL format
timezoneid INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Internal ID representing a timezone
timezonestring STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The actual timezone string, Ex: “US/Central”
titlebar STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The name of the title bar of the active window
user STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Friendly user name. E.g. First Last. Comes from the operating system.
user_alias STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium

Comes from ActivTrak, not the operating system. User Aliases are used to combine multiple user logins in ActivTrak graphs and reports as well as provide a "friendly name" in case the "userraw" and "user" fields are ambiguous

Learn more about user alias' here

user_id INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
The ActivTrak User ID
user_name STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Simple login name. Often first initial, last name. Comes from the operating system
username STRING
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Simple login name. Often first initial, last name. Comes from the operating system
utc_timestamp TIMESTAMP
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
System activity DateTime in UTC time zone
week_of_year INT64
  • Essentials/Advanced
  • Professional/Premium
Week number in the year

 

For additional assistance with ActivConnect, please reach out to ActivTrak Support.

 

 

 

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