End Experiment

joelsolo99

Good afternoon,

I'm designing an experiment using the most recent version of OSWeb, but I can't get it to end. The last item is an inline HTML thanking the participants for taking part, and there's a 'finish' button that ends the item. Rather than ending the experiment, a white screen is displayed. Is there a stronger way to cause the experiment to end? I'm happy to cancel the experiment, although JATOS classes this as a 'FAIL', so it's harder to filter out successful trials.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Joel

Fab

Hi @joelsolo99,

There probably is an error in the way you set up the task, but it's not possible to debug it without seeing what you've done exactly. What have you tried so far to debug it? Try the task without that html object and see if the task closes. if it does, it means that the issue is with the html object and the way it's handled by the browser. If you simply want to thank the particiapnt, simpler than a html document, you could use a simple sketchpad with the duration set to "keypress".

Best,

Fabrice.

joelsolo99

Hi fabrice, thank you for responding so soon. I've set a sketchpad to end the experiment with keypress duration so it's the last item, but still getting the same result: a white screen that doesn't end the experiment. I've tried placing the sketchpad before/after the logger.

Best wishes,

Joel

Fab

Hi @joelsolo99,

That's odd. I notice taht yourb task contains no loop (thats rather strange, 'caise it's sugests yoiur task has no trials list, though I'm not sure trhis is what might cause the issue) and several inline_javascript. I can really debug it from s screenshot. The issue may arise from some code in one of the inline_javascript objects. Could you upload your task? Or else try removing the inline_javascripts to only have the end sketchpad and see whether the experiment does end then. If it does, then the issue is hidding somewhere inside your javascript code.

Best,

Fabrice.