Is ther a way to stop the refresh/reload option on a browser? I don’t want the user to be able to reload the page
Subject: Is ther a way to stop the refresh/reload option on a browser?
No, but that’s no big deal. Explain what’s so fragile and we’ll try to find you a reasonable work-around. (If it’s a time-limit issue, like, oh, say a test, you have the user name in hand and have the opportunity to tell whether the user has requested the same page in the recent past. You can then either present them with a whole new test, the same test with the same target completion time – not the number of seconds, but the absolute time-of-day time, or issue an automatic fail – depending on your requirements or innate cruelty. That can even be customer-configurable.)
Subject: RE: Is ther a way to stop the refresh/reload option on a browser?
Wow, I was expecting to have to live with it. It is for a test, the problem is there are two timers, one is the countdown timer that you got working for me, the other is a duration (time taken to complete the question). Both restart when refreshed so there’s nothing stopping you taking a week to research the answer, then refreshing the page and answwering in one second, The duration is just two fields STARTTIME & ENDTIME . I don’t havethe username in terms of a login name because it’s anonymous acccess, but I do have a fisrtname, lastname, and email address as identifiers. What would be good would be to stop the countdown timer restarting, and stop the starttime refreshing.
Subject: RE: Is ther a way to stop the refresh/reload option on a browser?
I just ran into a similar functional need. I’m working in the client so no clue if this can be adapted to the web.
Open the doc to be times.
Create a time log document and set the ‘open time’.
User closes the doc.
Update the time log doc with the ‘close time’.
You’d probably need to have some code that, on doc open, checked for an existing time log doc that is missing the close time so you’re not creating tons of docs with just an open time.
This design has the advantage that I can create multiple time log docs in the event that the user is opening multiple docs to be timed at the same time (open view, open doc, leave doc open, move back to the view tab, open another doc, etc). Since each doc open event creates a new timer doc, I don’t care how many things they open at one time; I can log each one.
HTH
Doug