Redirect to another page when user is idle or inactive?

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Is there a code that I can insert in my project that automatically sends an idle page (say after 2 minutes) back to the Home page? Any help appreciated.

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How do you define idle?

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I’m designing a website that will ultimately become a touch-screen for patrons using the kiosk/touchscreen at our business. If a patron uses it and leaves the page that they are looking at for a length of time, and not clicking on HOME, I’d like the site to revert back to the HOME page after a certain amount of time – say 2 minutes or so. Just wondering if there is any sort of code that I can place in my project to make this happen? Hope I’ve explained this correctly. Thanks, Eddie

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Hey i googled this :

timed back to homepage code

I found this:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3292038/redirect-website-after-certain-amount-of-time

then you need to paste this in the head of your page:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url=http://www.google.com/" />

Good luck :slight_smile:

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Thank you very much!

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The meta refresh tag does NOT wait for idle usage. It just redirects after the set number of seconds after page load.

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This actually works for me. The whole idea was to refresh or divert the page back to HOME after an idle period. (in my case, 5 minutes) I pasted the following code on each page (except the HOME page) in the custom code section. (Before</body>tag) - 

<script type="text/javascript">
(function(){
   setTimeout(function(){
     window.location="http://forster-touchscreen.webflow.io";
   },300000); /* 1000 = 1 second*/
})();
</script>

The project by the way is purposely only designed for a TV touchscreen (16:9 ratio) not for responsive screens. Test site is forster-touchscreen.webflow.io

Thank you all for your help.
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That’s no better than a meta refresh tag. The timeout/idle period is not reset when the user interacts with the page (touches the screen or moves the mouse).

I have described a much better solution here: Redirect user after 60 seconds of idling/inactivity?

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Thanks samliew – I have taken your advice on board.

Exactly what I was looking for!

Thank you very much for your help.

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ow i totaly skipped the idle part of the question sorry :slight_smile:
But im for sure gonna use your idle script when i need it Sam :slight_smile:

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Hi everyone, I’m having issues here.
whenever I use the window.location.href to redirect a user to a specific page, it reloads repeatedly??