Popping up “Are you sure you want to leave this page” when moving to next trial

[Kati]

Dear all,

I have created an experiment that works perfectly offline. However, when I test it online via Pavlovia, I get the message “From “run.pavlovia.org”: Are you sure you want to leave this page?” every time a new trial starts…

Do you have any suggestions? Thank you so much in advance.
Best, Kati

[wakecarter]

Is this via a Pilot link? When piloting microphone recordings and surveys download during the experiment.

Do you have any code components running at the point the message appears?

[Kati]

Dear wakecarter,

No, unfortunately this message also appears when I use the Run link. There are some code components, but these are just some settings (e.g. defining a correct answer). It worked fine until this morning. I added a survey and some additional code, then noticed the error when running the experiment online. However, even though I have removed each new change, I am unable to run it normally without the “Are you sure you want to leave this page?” message. Do you have any idea what I might have accidentally set for the online version?

Best
Kati

[wakecarter]

Does your embedded survey have a redirection?

Do not put anything in the completion URL field of a Pavlovia Survey if the survey is being embedded into an experiment.

[Kati]

At the moment there is no survey component in my experiment as I have deleted it again. I have also designed an independent new dummy experiment, but I get the same message in every trial when I run it on pavlovia.

[wakecarter]

Please could you share your dummy experiment?

[Kati]

test.zip (189.2 KB)

This is my dummy experiment. Offline it works fine and when I run it from Pavlovia I get the following message again:

[wakecarter]

Please could you share the run link?

[Kati]

Of course: xxx

Thanks for checking it out!

[wakecarter]

I’m getting an immedaite redirection from https://run.pavlovia.org/xxx/cross2 to https://run.pavlovia.org/xxx/cross2/central

Why might that be? Do you have any code in Before Experiment that might be doing that?

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[Kati]

Oh, that’s strange…I never generate a “cross2/central” experiment and there is no code at all in the dummy version…
The word “central” only appears in the .csv file read into the dummy experiment.

[wakecarter]

I think I may have it. I wonder if “location” is a protected keyword. Change the column name in your spreadsheet.

[Kati]

It works now!! Thank you very much!

[Kati]

Would you mind if you xxx my name here?

[wakecarter]

Done