# Restart completed sessions

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/restart-completed-sessions/30620>\
**Category:** Online experiments\
**Tags:** pavlovia\
**Created:** [August 30, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/restart-completed-sessions/30620 "2022-08-30T15:29:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![antoniyaaboyanova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@antoniyaaboyanova](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/antoniyaaboyanova)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/restart-completed-sessions/30620/1 "2022-08-30T15:29:43Z")

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URL of experiment: [Pavlovia](https://pavlovia.org/antoniyaaboyanova/object_categorization)

Description of the problem: Hi guys, I want to set my completed sessions to 0, so that when I start running the experiment online it actually starts from participant 1, as I am using this web tool to assign participant numbers: [https://moryscarter.com/vespr/pavlovia.php](https://moryscarter.com/vespr/pavlovia.php)

How do I do this? Or if there are any other options to it please let me know.

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**Author:** ![ajus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@ajus](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/ajus)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/restart-completed-sessions/30620/2 "2022-08-30T15:46:47Z")

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Using this tool, I don’t think you can reset the counter. You could either reupload the experiment with a slightly different name, which would start again at 1. Or you could use the new shelf feature of pavlovia to count participants and give them consecutive IDs.

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**Author:** ![wakecarter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/wakecarter/32/5753_2.png) [@wakecarter](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/wakecarter)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/restart-completed-sessions/30620/3 "2022-08-31T22:02:03Z")

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There isn’t a way to do it automatically (this is a feature not a bug to prevent issues that might mess up your data with repeated participant numbers). However, if you [Buy me a coffee](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/vespr) and let me know the URL you are using, I’d be happy to manually delete the rows from the database to reset your count.

You can also do this yourself as a licenced feature in the [VESPR Study Portal](https://moryscarter.com/vespr/portal/).