I am coding a gift exchange experiment and was looking for some guidance on live pages.

Each player is either a worker or a firm. Firms make wage offers and workers accept wage offers. When a worker accepts an offer, they input the bid number. 

The issue I am having is that the live_method is a player level function, so, when the worker accepts a bid, the only way I have figured out how to have a function execute for the respective firm is by having the live_method return a message to the JS page, and then to have the firm’s JS page send a new live_send. So, I have 2 cycles of my live_method and liveRecv going back and forth.

I feel like there has to be a more efficient way to do this. Is there a way to have my live_method execute a group level function? Or, to have my player level live_method access another player’s variables?

Thank you for any guidance you may provide

Hi all, I figured it out! I put the following code in my live_method():

temp_group=player.get_others_in_group()
    for p in temp_group:
        if p.bid_number==data["offer_number"]:
            firm=p
    if firm.firms_offer_accepted==False:
    ...
    
I hope this helps anyone in the future that may need to access another player's variables in a player function!