Lab users are not always aware of the Maximum Duration. Maximum Duration is now a hard limit. We currently have an alert with the Maximum Duration at the beginning of the instructions, but this is manual. It would be nice to be dynamic via a variable.
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What is the problem you are trying to solve?
Lab users are not always aware of the Maximum Duration. Maximum Duration is now a hard limit. We currently have an alert with the Maximum Duration at the beginning of the instructions, but this is manual. It would be nice to be dynamic via a variable. |
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Thank you Charles for your additional information. You are looking to have a new system variable available that contains the "Maximum Duration" already populated that is dynamically driven from the Lab Profile.
We will consider this in future planning.
Thank you for your suggestion, but unfortunately it doesn't help. Duration is different depending on the lab, so the Maximum Duration is different per lab. Manually setting a variable in each lab would more work than having an informational box with a manually set max duration on the first page of the instructions.
Charles, there is one way to do this yourself with creating a variable , such as this:
Create a Life Cycle Action that sets creates a variable
Add a variable with the same name in the Lab Instructions
Add the Variable in the instructions
This is how how it would look like
Would this work for your use case?
Correct, I would like an @Lab.Variable (for Maximum Duration) so that it can be used inside of the instructions. The countdown timer uses Duration, not Maximum Duration.
Charles, thank you for the idea. The Count down timer that shows at the Top of the Users Lab window updates with remaining time in the lab (starting with the maximum lab duration and then decrements from there until time runs out).
If you could please explain a little more of what you would like and how you would use it. It looks like you want the "Maximum Duration" available as an @Lab.Variable so that it can be used inside of the instructions somewhere (i.e. in the header of the page)?
Trying to determine here is why the count down timer is not sufficient or if there is more that you wanted to show the user in addition to the count down timer.