Pavlovia thisExp is not defined

Online experiments
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URL of experiment: https://pavlovia.org/pasoba/speedfixedonline

Description of the problem:
I tried to make my Experiment work with Pavlovia. Besides a lot of other problems i always get the error thisExp is not defined even though “thisExp=psychoJS.experiment;” is defined at the Beginning of the Experiment.

I’m very grateful for any help!

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Please check your code components. One of them says /* Syntax Error: Fix Python code */ on the right hand side.

Please show a screenshot.

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I am having a lot of Problems with the code components. Since I’ve updated PsychoPy to the latest Version i can’t no longer open the coder view.

However thisExp = psychoJS.experiment; is one of the components who is translated fine but still causes trouble

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What you are showing here is JS code being added to the Python side of an auto code component. It needs to be switched to a JS component and then added (it it appears on the right hand side).

Not being able to open code components usually means that the code comes from a future version. I’ve mostly seen it when someone tries to open a 2020 experiment in version 3.

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Thanks for the advice I changed it. Yet still the described error occurs when I try to run it online

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I just opened your experiment in 2020.1.3 and the code components seem to have Python code in JS components. I also spotted a $ at the beginning of a variable name in one component. I couldn’t find where you were using thisExp.

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Adding the $ was one desperate try to define my variables. But even if I remove that it has no influence on the current error.

I even removed the code component were I wanted to add data (were I used thisExp.addData or psychoJS.experiment.addData) and it doesn’t helped. I have no idea where or why pavlovia wants thisExp to be defined.

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Two things to try:

  1. Add text in the first screen with the upload date to confirm that you are testing the latest version.

  2. Search the JavaScript code (Ctl-F) on Gitlab for “thisExp” to see if it appears more than once.

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That is a very good point! The gitlab files are updated correctly and I can see the changes I made in the .py and .js files but they are not updated in my pilot study.
It is updated now (even though i didn’t changed anything intentionally) and i’ve got rid of the error

Thank you so much for your time and help