# How to dismiss or dispose confirm box on inactivity?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-dismiss-or-dispose-confirm-box-on-inactivity/8399>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 1, 2014, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-dismiss-or-dispose-confirm-box-on-inactivity/8399 "2014-05-01T08:33:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![skallepalli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@skallepalli](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/skallepalli)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-dismiss-or-dispose-confirm-box-on-inactivity/8399/1 "2014-05-01T08:33:43Z")

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Inductive Automation Team,

We are using system.gui.confirm("…") as part of our logic like below:

[code]if system.gui.confirm(“Are you sure you want to move record?”, “Move record?”):

# Logic for move record.[/code]

However, once the confirm box has been shown, we would like to dismiss or dispose it if they don’t respond Yes / No within 10 seconds. How to achieve this functionality?

Waiting for your response.

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**Author:** ![adamaustin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@adamaustin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/adamaustin)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-dismiss-or-dispose-confirm-box-on-inactivity/8399/2 "2014-05-01T14:13:20Z")

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Try this: Instead of using system.gui.confirm, use a popup window or reveal a container with Yes / No buttons. Now you can control timing with a Timer component, etc.

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**Author:** ![skallepalli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@skallepalli](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/skallepalli)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-dismiss-or-dispose-confirm-box-on-inactivity/8399/3 "2014-05-04T19:19:12Z")

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Thank you Adam. I think, this is the way we can resolve current issue.
