Auto-advance on one block affecting advancement on future block.

Question

The survey I’m developing has two blocks in close proximity to each other. These blocks both have Timing questions.The Timing question in Block A (the first block) has “Display ‘submit’ after 300 seconds” and “Auto-advance after 600 seconds” enabled. So participants are not able to proceed to the next block before 5 minutes have passed. If they finish after 5 minutes and before 10 minutes, they may proceed to the next block voluntarily. If 10 minutes have passed, the block will auto-advance.The Timing question in Block B (the second block) has “Display ‘submit’ after 300 seconds”. However, when previewing my survey (and in one case of running my survey), the block auto-advances. Based on timing, I have basically confirmed that Block B is auto-advancing based on the “Auto-advance” feature in Block A. I looked online for answers. The only solution that seemed viable was to use Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnPageSubmit(function() {    clearTimeout(to); // Clear the timer to prevent auto-advance});orQualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnUnload(function() {    clearTimeout(to); // Clear the timer to prevent auto-advance});on the JavaScript for Block A. However, neither of these codes worked. If anyone has a better solution for preventing the auto-advance timing in Block A from affecting Block B, I would really appreciate it.

nikamshubham_73 · Answer

Hi @varunathi,Usually this should not happen as the two timer questions should be in different Blocks A and B as you mentioned.To overcome this, I can suggest one solution that you used one Timer question in Block A and use JS in Block B to Display submit and Auto forward.You can use the below code, which will act as a Timer/*Place your JavaScript here to run when the page is fully displayed*/// Hide the NextButton initiallyjQuery("#NextButton").hide();// Schedule to display NextButton after 300 secondssetTimeout(function() {  jQuery("#NextButton").show();}, 300000); // 300 seconds = 300,000 milliseconds// Schedule to click NextButton after 600 secondssetTimeout(function() {  jQuery("#NextButton").click();}, 600000); // 600 seconds = 600,000 milliseconds

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