On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 12:20 +0000, Adam Stein wrote:
> Maybe somebody can suggest how to get the functionality I'm trying to
> duplicate. I looked and can't find anything that seemed similiar.
>
> I have a form with checkboxes. User selects one or more and submits the
> form. The processing currently goes like this:
>
> 1) Write JavaScript to display moving progress bar
> 2) Process based on checked boxes (which in my specific example is to
> copy the specified databases into a sandbox area)
> 3) Write JavaScript to turn off progress bar
>
> The database copying is short, up to about 20 seconds. Short enough to
> let the user wait, long enough that I want to indicate the computer
> hasn't frozen :-{}
>
> It seems that I can only return HTML to be displayed once from a view.
> Is there a way to get the functionality described above somehow?
It's called AJAX. You have to keep asking the server for an update and
then updating the page.
Regards,
Malcolm
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