Question

I’ve got a Jquery function that I wrote which blacks out the screen after a certain amount of inactivity, creates a pop-up that allows the user to click a button to stay logged in, and logs them out (closing the application window) if they do not respond in time.

We don’t technically use master pages, but we do have a parent page in which our header, footer and nav reside, and my Jquery code is called from that window.

My problem is that if one is working in a child window, the parent window doesn’t recognize that the system is in use, and will automatically engage at the allocated time.

I know it doesn’t exist, but I guess I’m looking for a window.child.settimeout or something like that. Thanks in advance for your time and any ideas.

Answer 1

Simply have your child window report it’s activity to the parent window.

In the parent window, add a function:

    window.reportChildActivity = function() {
        resetLogoffTimer();
    };

And then in the child window, call that function:

    window.parent.reportChildActivity();

whenever you detect user’s activity.