How to implement a user inactivity timeout?

[dataprofessor]

Hi @IndigoJay

There are previous related post as follows tackling the same issue of user inactivity timeout:

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Another approach could be to reset important session state variables of the app after a certain amount of time has elapsed if there were no changes made to those session state variables.