My survey has a Quiz section and a questionnaire section. The Quiz section is 1 block with several pages. I wanted to set a timer only in the Quiz block with an auto-advancing function.

I followed the steps and Javascript found in a discussion post (https://www.qualtrics.com/community/discussion/7656/how-to-implement-a-time-limit-at-the-block-level-plus-auto-advancing). I inserted the Javascript in the first question of my Quiz block. The timer and auto-advance function work perfectly fine.



But the problem is, the Timer count-down continues even after the Quiz block. It means if someone finishes the quiz earlier than the time limit, still the count-down continues to show up in all the following questionnaire blocks. Therefore when the time is up, the page auto-advances during the questionnaire block. To prevent this, I insert a force response feature to most of the questions in my questionnaire block. However, due to some display logic, I cannot put force responses to all the questions. Therefore there is a risk of losing answers in the questionnaire block.



The Javascript I used is provided below. I wonder what I should do to make sure that the timer and auto-advance function works only in the Quiz block, not across all the following blocks? I do not have any knowledge of programming. If someone can kindly suggest any solutions that would be a great help!







Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnload(function()

{

var header = document.createElement("div");

header.className = "header"

header.id = "header_1";



var timer = document.createElement("div");

timer.className = "timer";

timer.id = "timer_1";

timer.innerHTML = "Time Remaining: <span id='time'>00:10</span>";



header.appendChild(timer);

document.body.insertBefore(header, document.body.firstChild);



function startTimer(duration, display) {

var timer = duration, minutes, seconds;

var myTimer = setInterval(function() {

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData('timeRemaining', timer);

minutes = parseInt(timer / 60, 10)

seconds = parseInt(timer % 60, 10);

minutes = minutes < 10 ? "0" + minutes : minutes;

seconds = seconds < 10 ? "0" + seconds : seconds;

var text = ('innerText' in display)? 'innerText' : 'textContent';

display[text] = minutes + ":" + seconds;



if (--timer < 0) {

clearInterval(myTimer);

timeOver();

}

}, 1000);

}

var timerSeconds = parseInt("${e://Field/timeRemaining}");

display = document.querySelector('#time');

startTimer(timerSeconds, display);

var timeOver = function() {

document.getElementById("timer_1").innerHTML = "Time is up.";



$('NextButton').click();

}

});