Hello, Hoping someone can point me in the right direction as I've never done something like this before.
We have a multi-user environment running v16r5. Through various means, a user can call a method that updates company-specific financial data. The problem is that it can take 30+ seconds and the user is left waiting until this finishes. What we want to do is this: - Return control to the user while the task runs in the background. We want the task to run on the server instead of on the client machine like it's currently doing. - If this user or a different user runs the task again for the same company, we need to queue it up somehow and do this after the previous processing finishes. If this user or a different user runs the task for a different company, we could either do the server processing at the same time since there's no data conflict, or queue it up if there is a risk of trying to do too many things at once. I've read the language manual and understand the syntax of semaphores, which is what I'm thinking I need to use (but am not completely sure). Beyond the syntax of commands, I don't know how to implement this. For example if I'm doing an "execute on server", is the semaphore going to be set on the client side before we call the server to run its method, or is it the server method that does the semaphore? Is this going to be a local semaphore or global? There are transactions involved in the actual processing...does this impact at all how I need to go about doing this? Thanks for any tips! Ben ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
