Session timeout control question

[aren]

If the user using their password and email to sign in my website, and leave that tab there, will anvil require the user to redo sign in again in a few hours? Do I have control over that time period?

[david.wylie]

I assume you are referring to the session timeout (edit - the subject changed since I wrote this)?

The best way to keep a session running for longer than the standard timeout (I think it’s 30 mins?) is to have a Timer on your main form that calls a server function every 5 or 10 minutes. This act will keep the session running.

See this thread :

Is it possible to avoid session timeouts?

Put a timer on the main form that calls a server function like this every 5 minutes : @anvil.server.callable def ping(): return "pong" I find that this keeps the comms open and hence the session open.