Timer Clock Perspective

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I want to display a countdown timer on one of my perspective view.
For eg. as soon as a user logs-in I want to display a countdown timer for 1hr. Is there any way I can achieve this ?

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  • Create a session custom property, countdownStart.
  • When the user logs in run the following code in a script:
	self.session.custom.countdownStart = system.date.now()
  • On your countdown label create an expression binding to calculate the time remaining. For example,
    floor((now(1000) - {session.custom.countdownStart}) /1000)
    will tell you the number of seconds since countdownStart.
  • Modify the expression to give the number of seconds remaining.
  • Modify the expression to clamp the time remaining at zero (to prevent it going negative).
  • Modify the expression to give the time remaining in mm:ss format.
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where to write this script ?: self.session.custom.countdownStart = system.date.now()

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In your login script. You haven't explained how you're doing this.

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I just want thing like whenever a user login(opens a session in browser) the timer countdown timer should start.

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That's what you wrote in your opening post. It doesn't add any new information.

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I'm logging in with IDP.
Need guidance how to proceed with the timer thing

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How are you logging in? Button event? Script? Application launch? You need to be much more specific in the details you supply.

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I'm launching the project from the designer.
It then opens in browser as usual there it asks for user id and pw (initially I told doing it with idp but for now keeping that aside).
After this it launches my project

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That's better.
Add the code into Project Browser → Perspective → Session Events → Page Startup.

You might also go back through some of your other threads and see if any of the problems were answered to your satisfaction. As far as I can see you haven't marked any of the answers as 'Solution'.

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Not sure about this. I would be putting a value change event handler on the session.props.auth.user.userName to set the custom session prop

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Good idea. Can you post a step-by-step?

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Can do when I'm in the office in a few hours

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I was wondering, will "putting a value change event handler on the session.props.auth.user.userName to set the custom session prop" will work if the same user logs in again?

Asking this because i'm building something like : every one hour the user need to log in again.

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It will run whenever the userName changes

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Can you post a step-by-step solution pls.

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Something like this:

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The logout doesn't work atm as I think you need to pass in the session id... but I always forget how to do this

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