What about writing the process status into a log-file? After a user starts the process, redirect him to that logfile (e.g. HTML-type with a meta-refresh so that it updates) and let him watch the progress. You may want him to return back, then.. well, in the final step, replace the self-refreshing metatag with one that passes the user back to wherever you want. Just a workaround. :-) -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Jim Penny Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 5:42 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Progress information for long running process Eddie M?nch wrote:
Hi All,
Could someone help with this problem: I have a long running process performed with an external method. Long means > 30 min. At the and I'm giving back HTML code to the calling object. What I need now is same sort of progress information on the web page (e.g. Processing step 50 out of 100). Has anyone an idea how to do this?
Actually, I would probably try something completely different. I would immediately return something like: 'Your job is being processed. As this job takes a long time to perform, and there is no good reason to tie up you and your browser, I will send you an email when this is done telling you where you may pick up your results.' Then send an email with an URI to the result. Jim Penny _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )