# multiuser sessions

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/multiuser-sessions/1229>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** usage, solved\
**Created:** [February 20, 2019, 5:08am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/multiuser-sessions/1229 "2019-02-20T05:08:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![akshitasood63](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/akshitasood63/32/455_2.png) [@akshitasood63](https://support.prodi.gy/u/akshitasood63)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 5:08am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/multiuser-sessions/1229/1 "2019-02-20T05:08:17Z")

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Hi,  
I just saw the prodigy1.7 update. It’s really great for multiuser annotations. 🙂  
I wanted to know that is there any way to separate out the data from each user session.

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**Author:** ![ines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ines/32/3_2.png) [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 10:43am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/multiuser-sessions/1229/2 "2019-02-20T10:43:00Z")

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Yes, each user session will be created as a session dataset (just like the timestamp session datasets). So if your dataset name is `ner_annotations` and your session is `akshita`, the session dataset created in the database will be `ner_annotations-akshita`. You can then use that dataset name for training or export it using `db-out`.

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**Author:** ![akshitasood63](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/akshitasood63/32/455_2.png) [@akshitasood63](https://support.prodi.gy/u/akshitasood63)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/multiuser-sessions/1229/3 "2019-02-20T11:29:36Z")

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Oh! That's great. And does it store all the session names?  
In case I am not sure of the sessions that were started in between?

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**Author:** ![ines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ines/32/3_2.png) [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/multiuser-sessions/1229/4 "2019-02-20T14:04:23Z")

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I’m not 100% sure I understand your question correctly. If you access Prodigy with the identifier `/?session=akshita`, those annotations will be added to the regular dataset, e.g. `ner_annotations`, and the session dataset `ner_annotations-akshita`. If you access Prodigy again with the same session name later, your annotations will be assigned to the same session again. If someone else accesses Prodigy with a different session, their annotations will also be added to the main dataset and their session dataset as well. So in the end, you might have one main dataset `ner_annotations` that bundles all annotations, and separate session datasets that only contain the annotations of the named sessions. For example, `ner_annotations-akshita`, `ner_annotations-alex`, and so on.

To see an overview of all available sessions, you can run `prodigy stats -ls`.

If you check out your `PRODIGY_README.html`, there’s also a section on the named multi-user sessions with an example of this.

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**Author:** ![akshitasood63](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/akshitasood63/32/455_2.png) [@akshitasood63](https://support.prodi.gy/u/akshitasood63)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/multiuser-sessions/1229/5 "2019-02-20T14:18:05Z")

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That answered my question. Thanks a lot.  
I was basically looking for the session datasets, which I think can be fetched using ‘db.sessions’.  
And this update is great!!! A solution to so many problems. 😄