In my case it is a very long running action but even in the case of short running actions I would think users would want to be able to navigate away from the progress page and return. I thought maybe I just didn't know how to configure the actions correctly....
EDIT: So while writing the above reply a solution occurred to me. With a little trickery it's possible to do everything I was talking about with no AJAX. Documenting this pattern below in case anyone else ever comes across this problem. Have a single Action that directs the users to the form view and also handles the form submission. This solution will make it impossible for a user to view the form again until their task is complete. The key is to always use a delay for the execAndWait interceptor. <interceptor-ref name="execAndWait"> <param name="delay">500</param> </interceptor-ref> The Action class looks something like: public class LongAction extends ActionSupport { private String formField; public String getFormField() { return formField; } public void setFormField(String ff) { formField = ff; } public String execute() { if(formField == null || formField.length == 0) { return INPUT; //the form } else { //long task here return SUCCESS; //result page } } } The delay on the interceptor is important because we need a chance to return INPUT before being redirected to the wait page. If anyone has a more elegant solutions please let me know. Thanks, -Chase On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Karr, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm guessing the operation you're waiting for can take quite a while to > complete. Otherwise modifying the architecture of this probably > wouldn't be worth it. > > You might consider the flow of the original action to simply report a > simple "submitted and processing" result, and then implement an > Ajax-based timeout to quickly check the status of the long-running > process. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:23 PM >> To: user@struts.apache.org >> Subject: ExecAndWait (navigating back to the progress page) >> >> I want my users to be able to leave the wait page and return. >> Can this be done, what is the best way? >> >> I've got two actions. ActionA displays a form and the form >> submits to ActionB. ActionB is using the ExecAndWait >> interceptor. Right now users have to resubmit the form to get >> back to their status page (possibly resubmitting the form if >> ActionB has finished). How can I have ActionA display the >> wait page of ActionB instead of the form? >> >> Also, is there anyway to make the ExecAndWait interceptor >> function per context instead per session? This is a low >> volume internal app. >> >> Thanks, >> Chase >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]