Timer on Screen

RE: Timer on Screen

chandu — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 10:12:50 GMT

Hi Rohan, As a part of your scenario, I opened forum news before I locked my screen and logout from office. When I came back and unlocked my screen, I see Session about to expire message.
It is only displaying generic message does not indicate like "Session is about to expire in 3 minutes" etc. I'm not sure do we have any admin setting to display the exact time out, Its would be good if have any setting like that.
I have attached the screen shot FYR

RE: Timer on Screen

reginaldm377 — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 03:52:19 GMT

I don't see this being any better than the idea mentioned by the others already, but assuming you need this functionality for a typical task/task form, you could start by capturing 2 time-stamps: 1.) when the user accepts the task & 2.) the user's current time & use the two in conjunction as your timer display for the user. The drawbacks would be that this timer would only re-evaluate itself if the variable (for example) is in with() & the user makes some kind of interaction.

RE: Timer on Screen

ChristineLHutchison — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 03:14:23 GMT

Got it. Agree with the above that I don't believe there is a way to run this type is script in Appian.
I wonder if you could do it from another webpage that uses Appian's embedded feature. Not sure if that would work or fit your use case though.

RE: Timer on Screen

sanjays0006 — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:41:10 GMT

Rohan,
The timeout christine mentioned is the idle timeout when the user is not active on Appian. As long as the user is working, the user session will not log out. I am not sure whether you can show a message to the user when the user itself is not active.

RE: Timer on Screen

rohann — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 02:23:25 GMT

Thanks christineh but if the application is up and running and the user is active ..but the session time out is 20 mins so i want to display a message in order to save data as a message to the user as his session times out!

RE: Timer on Screen

ChristineLHutchison — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 01:29:55 GMT

Will this timeout work for you: forum.appian.com/.../Appian_Administration_Console.html