# Timer triggers only "once per session"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Data collection and tags\ **Created:** [December 13, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/timer-triggers-only-once-per-session/383 "2021-12-13T14:18:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mbaersch](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.piwik.pro/mbaersch/32/35_2.png) [@mbaersch](https://community.piwik.pro/u/mbaersch)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/timer-triggers-only-once-per-session/383/1 "2021-12-13T14:18:50Z")
Hi! I recently created a trigger for a tag that is supposed to fire on a group of specific pages after 5 seconds. But as I realized this trigger only works once per session - which seems to be a default setting for all timer triggers without any chance to change this configuration in the Tag Manager ui (or I did not find it). The debugger even tells me that the trigger is defined as **Time on website** **once\_per\_session** “5” **Page Url** contains “/blog/” as a result, the tag does not fire on following pages of the same group… and there will be a cookie for every timer trigger named std\_fired\_. Both is not what I want - the trigger should fire more than once in a session (once per page would be the expected behaviour) and I surely do not want to create any cookies just by defining a trigger (that might fire for other reasons than tracking for example) that could emerge even in a situation where no consent was given. OK, it is a session cookie and tracking people would be useless, but still I see a risk here. Is there some setting that I just did not find or do I have to I move away from timer as triggers: It would be neccesary to use 1) a regular pageview trigger to fire 2) a HTML tag to push an event to the dataLayer after a timeout and create 3) another trigger for that dataLayer event that then finally can 4) trigger my tag? best Markus ---
**Author:** ![Admin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Admin](https://community.piwik.pro/u/Admin)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/timer-triggers-only-once-per-session/383/2 "2021-12-13T15:10:20Z")
Hi @mbaersch, you’re right, it’s not possible to change it. A dedicated trigger called “time on page” would be needed to solve this use case. We have already such feature request on our list and I’ll bump its priority. ---
**Author:** ![mbaersch](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.piwik.pro/mbaersch/32/35_2.png) [@mbaersch](https://community.piwik.pro/u/mbaersch)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/timer-triggers-only-once-per-session/383/3 "2021-12-13T15:56:21Z")
Great, thanks. Will avoid that thing until then 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/54ee81/32.png) [@Green](https://community.piwik.pro/u/Green)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 11:23am UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/timer-triggers-only-once-per-session/383/4 "2023-09-16T11:23:27Z")
Is there any update on this feature? ---
**Author:** ![Adam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.piwik.pro/adam/32/1494_2.png) [@Adam](https://community.piwik.pro/u/Adam)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 8:37am UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/timer-triggers-only-once-per-session/383/5 "2023-09-20T08:37:57Z")
Hi @Green, Sorry to say that but no updates yet on the feature. ---
**Author:** ![mperezcastell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@mperezcastell](https://community.piwik.pro/u/mperezcastell)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 7:58am UTC](https://community.piwik.pro/t/timer-triggers-only-once-per-session/383/6 "2024-04-24T07:58:20Z")
> [@Green](#): > > Is there any update on this feature? Hi! Is there any update on this feature?