Restrict access to course for x hours

Hi David,

A community member recently shared a Storyline project where he restricted access to content by date. I'm not sure if this will work for your purpose since it's not a specific date you can pre-program, but an amount of time after the learner first accesses the course but I thought I'd share it with you just in case it's helpful: Date locked questions.

If that doesn't work, hopefully some Javascript rockstars will jump in here and help you figure this one out.

You should be able to restrict by time you would need to capture the time in javascript and then set a variable before they leave. I have done it once, it is however the client machine time so can be overcome by setting the time forward on the client machine.

Trigger the following code in your SL file to set a target time after which the user can resume. This example uses a shorter 5 minute time out.
//get the current date and time and add 5 minutes to it
let d = new Date(); d.setMinutes(d.getMinutes() + 5);

//convert the date time to a numeric value
let target = d.valueOf();

//StoryLine is buggy when saving numeric variables over multiple sessions
//change the value to a string
target = target.toString();

//Send the string to StoryLine
var player=GetPlayer();
player.SetVar('Reflection', target);

Then on your next button, execute the following JS:
// Establish StoryLine player connection and get timer target
var player=GetPlayer();
let d=player.GetVar('Reflection');
let target = new Date();
target.setTime(d);

//Measure elapsed time
let now = new Date().getTime();
let distance = target - now;

//state any remaining time in terms of minutes and seconds and restate negative values as 0
let mm = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60 * 60)) / (1000 * 60));
let ss = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60)) / 1000);
if (mm < 0) {mm = 0;}
if (ss < 0) {ss = 0;}

//Return remaining minutes and seconds to SL
player.SetVar('Minutes', mm);
player.SetVar('Seconds', ss);

On the next button add the conditions to allow advancing only if both the minutes and the seconds variables are equal to 0 else, show a layer or some other message to let the user know not enough time has elapsed.

This solution works perfectly, thank you Owen! I've updated mine to work with hrs (as I wanted to lock the user out after 24hrs).

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