Dropped out player doesn't move passed waitpage

[Eva Vriens]

Dear oTree group,

For my experiment I need to regroup participants every round. To achieve that I use wait_for_all_groups = True and regroup participants based on a scoring number, which is a random number of the player is active and 1 if inactive:

def creating_score(self):
if self.inactive:
self.score = 1
else:

self.score = random()

self.participant.vars['score'] = self.score

Participants are then sorted so that the inactive players are grouped together in the last group:

def shuffle_groups(self):
# Create groups and assign player roles

# Sort players > from player list where if inactive player has score 1
sorted_players = sorted(
self.get_players(),
key=lambda player: player.participant.vars['score']
)
group_matrix = []
ppg = Constants.players_per_group
for i in range(0, len(sorted_players), ppg):
group_matrix.append(sorted_players[i:i + ppg])
self.session.vars['group_matrix'] = group_matrix
self.set_group_matrix(group_matrix)

For inactive players the decision pages timeout at 0 seconds. I need them to still loop through the experiment, because I need the browser bots to fill in numbers that can be presented to the other participants. 

The problem is that while timeouts work for the regular pages, the dropped out players do not move passed the grouping waitpage if the browser window has been closed. Any ideas how to solve that?

Eva

[Chris @ oTree]

Is this problem occurring on devserver or Heroku?

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On Nov 29, 2021, at 6:30 AM, Eva Vriens <evav...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Eva Vriens]

It happens on both. On Heroku it only works if I manually open tabs of players that dropped out.

Op maandag 29 november 2021 om 15:37:42 UTC+1 schreef Chris @ oTree: