# Close Clients when Clients Timeout?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/close-clients-when-clients-timeout/20317>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 23, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/close-clients-when-clients-timeout/20317 "2018-10-23T14:00:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rrowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c57346/32.png) [@rrowe](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rrowe)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/close-clients-when-clients-timeout/20317/1 "2018-10-23T14:00:56Z")

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Is it currently possible to have the clients closeout when they timeout?

EDIT: Timeout as in a connection timeout for server-client communication.

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**Author:** ![AlThePal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/althepal/32/3603_2.png) [@AlThePal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AlThePal)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/close-clients-when-clients-timeout/20317/2 "2018-10-23T14:09:06Z")

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What do you mean by timeout? You can check for client inactivity and log out the user or close the client when that reaches a certain value.

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**Author:** ![rrowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c57346/32.png) [@rrowe](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rrowe)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/close-clients-when-clients-timeout/20317/3 "2018-10-23T14:10:27Z")

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Timeout as in a connection timeout for server-client communication.

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**Author:** ![AlThePal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/althepal/32/3603_2.png) [@AlThePal](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/AlThePal)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/close-clients-when-clients-timeout/20317/4 "2018-10-23T14:31:29Z")

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If comms fail between an Ignition client and server the screen will show error overlays, then recover automatically when comms is re-established. I reckon users would find it much more annoying if the client suddenly closes when comms were lost…

Do you have a specific use case you can share?