Temporary message to user waiting the result of thequery

[maquejp]

Hello,

I am generating dispalying the result of a many records (1619x1619)
crosstabbed; is there a way to show a message (html) asking the user to wait
the result of his page? this message should be hidden when the result is
displayed...

I am not sure to be clear, but it is sunday evening and it is pretty warm
today in my office...

[MikerRoo]

One way to do it is attached.


<CFOUTPUT>
<h1 id="FriendlyStatusMessage">I'm busy! Wait...</h1>
</CFOUTPUT>

<CFFLUSH>

*** Finish big long query here. ***


<CFOUTPUT>
<script type="text/javascript">
var zStatDiv = document.getElementById
? document.getElementById ("FriendlyStatusMessage")
: document.all? document.all["FriendlyStatusMessage"]
: alert ('Your browser needs to be replaced with
FireFox.')

zStatDiv.style.display="none"
</script>
</CFOUTPUT>

*** Finish page display here. ***

[Chikowski]

In my page I do a <cfinclude template="fileName.cfm">

Then I include the following code into that included template:

<cfoutput>
<table id="progressbar" >
<tr>
<th><font size="2px"><strong />Processing, please be patient...</font></th>
</tr>
<tr id="i1">
<td><img src="#Request.WebSvrHttpAddr#Images/Processing/progress_a.gif"
id="divProcessingWindowImage" border="0"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<script>
function hideProgressBar(){
document.getElementById('progressbar').style.displ ay = "none";
}
AE_AttachEvent("onload", "hideProgressBar");
</script>
</cfoutput>
<cfflush>

Basically it is an animated gif and asking the user to wait. It gives the
user a feeling that the page is doing something.

The main thing that happens is a table being shown before everything else by
using <cfflush> then when the page loads, the table is hidden.

[cgsj_usa@yahoo.com]

Does your "animated gif" appear immediately when the form/query is submitted? Or does it just flash right before the results are displayed? Thanks.

Chris

[Chikowski]

It appears as fast as the client's web browser can display it, then it gets hidden as soon as the data from the query is ready to be displayed.

[Chikowski]

As far as I know, there is no way to show something like a progressbar or an
animated gif and have it stay on the page so the viewer can see it until the
query'ed data is shown. I have noticed that with hugh sets of data to be
displayed to the user, there are a few seconds where the page is blank and the
browser is organizing the data to output. Once the bowser is done organizing
the data, it shows all the data.

[maquejp]

Originally posted by: MikerRoo
One way to do it is attached.


Hello,

I have tried with a smaller query and it works well; I will do the test with the "big" one tonight.