thanks for your advice Ian, i thought we may be missing something and that there was a common way people handled this through ColdFusion; so it looks like we are going to have to add some form of page locking or content updater function as you suggested.
thanks for your advice richard >You can not do this with basic HTTP/HTML/AJAX level technology. There >is no connection between the server and any client that recently >connected to receive content. The closest you can get with these >technologies is to regularly pull updated data from the client. I.E. >Set a function on the client to check the server for new data every X >seconds. > >If you want to truly push data from the server to the client you are >going to have to use something beyond the basic HTTP client. Of course >Adobe would probably suggest their FLASH/FLEX/LIVECYCLE family of tools >that would allow this type of functionality. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:313212 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
