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Onvio login timeout examples

Thomson Reuters is working in partnership with the IRS to meet requirements that help strengthen security for all tax-related applications.
Part of this strengthened security is the timeout period. After 30 minutes of inactivity, Onvio will time out and you will be required to re-authenticate using your credentials.
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When Onvio times out, your access to it is suspended, but the operation of Onvio is not, so processes such as long print jobs will continue during the timeout.
The definition of inactivity depends on which applications you are using and how you're accessing them. The example section describes how the following timeout rules apply in various circumstances.
General timeout rules
  • All instances of Onvio applications within a single login session (for which you have entered your credentials only once) remain "active" as long as there is activity in any of those Onvio instances.
  • All instances of Onvio applications using separate login sessions (for which you have entered your credentials for each application) have their own 30-minute timeout countdown. Activity in one session doesn’t prevent the other session from timing out.
  • CS Professional Suite applications running on the desktop remain "active" as long as there is any activity at all on the workstation, whether in another application or in a browser.
  • Accessing your CS Professional Suite applications via Virtual Office CS or Software as a Service (SaaS), through an installation on a Terminal Server, or through Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), establishes a remote session. The timeout countdown begins the last time a remote session window is accessed. Other activity on the local workstation has no effect on the timeout.
  • If you are accessing your CS Professional Suite applications through your NetStaff homepage, your NetStaff session will time out separately from your applications.
Examples
  1. Multiple Onvio instances - multiple tabs in a single browser window.
     You're working in Onvio Center in one browser tab and Onvio Trial Balance in another tab within the same browser window. This involves a single login session, and as long as you are actively working in one of the tabs, neither application will time out.
  2. Multiple Onvio instances - multiple browser windows.
     You are working in Onvio Center in one browser instance and Onvio Trial Balance in a second instance of the same browser (two instances of Chrome, for example). As long as you are signed in as the same user and actively working in one browser window or another, neither application will time out.
  3. Multiple Onvio instances - different browser types.
     You are working in Onvio Center in Chrome and Onvio Trial Balance in Firefox. This scenario involves 2 separate login sessions, so inactivity in the Chrome browser windows begins the countdown timer for Onvio Center, and inactivity in the Firefox browser begins the countdown timer for Onvio Trial Balance. In this example, activity in Onvio Center (or in any other application on that workstation) won’t prevent the timer countdown from beginning in Onvio Trial Balance, or vice versa.
  4. Onvio and Checkpoint - multiple tabs in a single browser window.
     You are working in Onvio Trial Balance in one browser tab and Checkpoint in a second tab (either within the same browser window or in a separate browser). Each application requires its own login session, so inactivity in Onvio Trial Balance begins the countdown for Onvio Trial Balance, and inactivity in Checkpoint begins the inactivity countdown timer for Checkpoint. In this example, activity in Onvio Trial Balance (or in any other application on that workstation) won’t prevent the timer countdown from starting in Checkpoint, or vice versa.
  5. Onvio and a CS Professional Suite product (cloud) - multiple tabs in a single browser window.
     You're working in Onvio Trial Balance in one browser tab and a remote instance of UltraTax CS in another browser tab (via SaaS or Virtual Office CS, etc.). This scenario involves two separate login sessions, so inactivity in Onvio Trial Balance begins the inactivity countdown timer for Onvio Trial Balance, and inactivity in UltraTax CS begins the inactivity countdown timer for UltraTax CS. In this example, activity in Onvio Trial Balance (or in any other application on the workstation) doesn’t prevent the timer countdown from starting in UltraTax CS, or vice versa.
  6. Onvio and a CS Professional Suite product (desktop).
     You're working in Onvio Center in one browser tab and Accounting CS on your desktop. If you're actively working in Onvio Center (or in any other application on that workstation), Accounting CS will detect mouse movement on your desktop and will not begin the inactivity countdown timer. However, inactivity in Onvio Center begins the countdown timer for Onvio Center, whether or not you're active in Accounting CS or in any other application on the workstation.
  7. Onvio and a CS Professional Suite product (via NetFirm/NetStaff).
     You are working in Onvio Center in one browser tab and one or more CS Professional Suite applications (FileCabinet CS and UltraTax CS, for example) via your NetStaff homepage. If you are active only in Onvio Center, the inactivity countdown timer begins for your NetStaff portal and, thus, for FileCabinet CS and UltraTax CS. In addition, if you are active only in UltraTax CS, the countdown timer begins for Onvio and for the portal.
    Portal example:
     If you are working on a tax return in UltraTax CS (via the NetStaff portal) for more than 30 minutes, to print the return to FileCabinet CS (which is not currently open) you will need to reauthenticate your NetStaff portal credentials.

This article applies to:

  • PRODUCT: Onvio
  • Subject: Setup
  • Audiences: Staff