Auto-advance to next block after set amount of total time spent on a loop and merge block.

start_timer should be initialized as:
start_timer = ${e://Field/Q_TotalDuration}

Hi TomG ,
Fantastic! Thanks so much!
The only strange thing now is that it seems to take much longer than my specified amount of time before it actually advances to the next page. i.e., I have it now specified to auto-advance after 10 seconds but it's actually taking something closer to 20 seconds or so to advance.
Any guesses?
If not, no sweat; you've already helped so much!
Here's the updated survey:

The way your script is written it isn't going to skip the remaining questions until the page after the current page times out when it loads and the respondent still has to click the next button. If you want it to auto advance as soon as elapsed time reaches 10 seconds you need to add a setInterval.

Oh, interesting! So I would just wrap the whole thing in a setInterval function, with the second interval as 300 (300 seconds = 5 minutes). Is that right? My attempt below. Again, I don't know JS so am super grateful for you, TomG.

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnload(function()

{

	/*Place your JavaScript here to run when the page loads*/

});

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnReady(function()

{

/*Place your JavaScript here to run when the page is fully displayed*/

setInterval{	

var start = parseInt('${e://Field/start_time}');

	var end = parseInt('${e://Field/Q_TotalDuration}');

	var elapsed = end - start;

	Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData('elapsed', elapsed);

	if(elapsed > 300) Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData('timeout', 1);

}),300};