The timeout plugin

Available since version: 2012

Author: Carsten Tschach (Carsten@Tschach.com)

Description

This plugins jumps back to a defined page after a given timeout period

Settings

For a general understanding of how the configuration files are structured and what elements and attributes are it is recommended to read this section first: Pages and structure of CometVisu.

The behaviour and appearance of the timeout plugins can be influenced by using certain attributes and elements. The following tables show the allowed attributes and elements and their possible values. The screenshots show, how both can be edited in the editor.

Attributes underlined by ..... are mandatory, all the others are optional and be omitted.

Allowed attributes in the timeout-element

Element	Attribute
	Name	Content	Description
timeout	time	string	Defines the time until target page is called.
	target	string	The name of the page, that should be called.
	debug	true or false

Attributes in the editor (simple view) [1]

Allowed child-elements und their attributes

The timeout widget has no child elements.

Examples

It is possible to manually edit the visu_config.xml and add an entry for the timeout plugin.

Caution

Make sure that you only use UTF-8 encoded characters by settings the encoding in your XML-editor to UTF-8 mode!

Footnotes

[1]	The simple view might not show everything. To see all elements/attributes use the expert view.