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Restarting a test which ANY-maze has ended automatically

Introduction

As you may know, you can use procedures to determine when some situation occurs in a test and to take some action because of it; and one of the available actions is to end that test. For example, you might create an procedure that will end a water-maze test if the animal finds the 'Island' zone.

In some situations a test might be ended by a procedure but you may want to continue the test. This might be the case, for example, if the animal climbed onto the water-maze island and then immediately jumped off.

Details

When you create a procedure that can end a test, you can actually choose whether the user (i.e. you) will be allow to force the test to continue or not. If the action you include in the procedure allows for test continuation, then, when the action is triggered, ANY-maze won't immediately end the test, instead it will change the test status to Waiting for test end. While the status is Waiting for test end,, tracking doesn't stop and you have 10 seconds during which you can click the button (or press the test control key or close the test control switch) to force the test to continue. If you do this, then the fact that the test 'ended' is forgotten and the test continues without any interruption in the tracking data.

On the other hand, if you really do want the test to end, then you can either:

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Wait for the 10 second period to expire

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Click the

button

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Walk into the camera's view. This is the easiest option as you'll assumedly want to remove the animal from the apparatus.

Whichever method you use, ANY-maze will stop tracking and will only record the data up to the point where the action was triggered - i.e. the tracking data recorded since then is simply thrown away.

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