There's a system out there called CIZER. It's a report management system which allows you to present PDFs, HTML, Crystal Reports, etc., and can do some rudimentary conversions. You register your report with the system, then it's just a URL link to display the report.
As an added bonus, it displays a window with a count down timer while it is processing the reports. If you already have your reports, and don't want to invest the bucks, you can simulate this by posting your info to a new window - sized to be relatively small, and centered maybe. This new window would contain a javascript routine to do some counting or something suitable, and would trigger the actual report. You could open the new report in the countdown window, or in the main window - as long as you have a function called in the onLoad to close/stop the countdown. hope my ramblings help. Shawn Grover -----Original Message----- From: WebMaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 2:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: "Form Processing" Page I have a form that allows users to select from several options, then see reports based on their selections. Some of these reports can take several minutes to generate, so I'd like to put an interim page with a "Processing" message (perhaps an animated GIF) just to make them feel like something is happening and to prevent them from clicking on the submit button again. I'm currently submitting to a page which uses <cflist> to parse #form.formfields#, builds a new form with all of the original fields as hidden variables, and then submits the form automatically using <body onLoad="document.myForm.submit();">. This seems to work, but I'm wondering if there is a better way to do it. Anybody else doing something similar? Thanks, Mike ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
