What does a user's "modified_at" field mean?

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iancrew

• January 23, 2020 15:09

Hi all:

 

What does the "modified_at" field mean for a user, as shown at https://developer.box.com/en/reference/get-users-id/#response-example ? Is it the last time they logged in/last authenticated? Their last activity time? The last time the details of their account (name or address or settings or something) were changed? I can't seem to find it documented anyplace.

 

Thanks,

 

Ian

 

 

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  jcleblanc

  • February 05, 2020 18:11

  Hi ,

   

  Here's the information on the user object: https://developer.box.com/en/reference/resources/user/ 

   

  The modified_at field will be the last time that the user object information was updated.

   

  Please let me know if you have any other questions,

  Jon

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  iancrew

  • February 07, 2020 15:52

  Thanks  !

   

  I needed an answer sooner, so I ended up submitting a support ticket and got an answer. The documentation you pointed to is the right place (though for some reason Google Search doesn't seem to know about it?).

   

  What I eventually learned is that a user's modified_at changes any time any other field for the user is changed. Critically, that also includes any change to the space_used (i.e. how much stuff they own) value. So while it's not a "user last activity" value — which would be insanely useful, BTW — it's a very rough approximation for one, and good enough in certain circumstances.

   

  I did suggest that making the above a touch clearer in the documentation would be nice.

   

  Cheers,

   

  Ian

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