Percent completed

[EdmondsM]

Hi all, I have created a cfm that tracks the stages in projects. Once the user
clicks a checkbox next to a stage in the project, it stamps that stage with
with a date and saves the info to a database. Is there an easy way to produce
a progress bar that shows the amount of the project that was completed based on
the number of items checked??

Thanks in advance.

[Stressed_Simon]

You can use an image and then set the width to the percent complete. Or you
could create a basic flash movie and pass it a variable to in the embed
statement using flashvars to create a progess bar. It depends what you are most
comfortable with!

[EdmondsM]

Anyone else have any ideas??

[dempster]

What's wrong with Simon's suggestion? It's perfectly appropriate based on the
information you gave us.

You can create an image that is blue, 1 pixel by 1 pixel, and call it
blue.gif. Using HTML IMG attributes, you can set the width and height of this
image to create a bar of any dimensions. For example:

<IMG SRC="blue.gif" WIDTH="500" HEIGHT="50">

So if you decide that 100% of your project is 500 pixels, you figure out how
much of the project is done, multiply that by 500, and use the value to set the
width. 50% of the project = .5 * 500 = 250. So you use ColdFusion to generate
the width to create your progress bar.

<IMG SRC="blue.gif" WIDTH="#pctwidth#" HEIGHT="50">

Pretty simple.

-Paul