On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:44 PM, M Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Sounds kinda like you are talking about a 'dashboard'.... it requeries > itself every X minutes or so to update stuff on the page like "Orders > placed this hour" or "Support Calls Matt Didn't Answer Because He No > Longer Gives a Flying Flip".... you know, the important stuff.... > > Sounds an awful lot like the Acme Widgets Management Information Systems dashboard that graced the cover of FoxPro Advisor, I think it was June 1994, showing a set of graphs that updated automatically based on querying database changes on a timer. > So, IIRC HTML has a REFRESH option that will, as the command name > implies, refresh the page by reloading it. > It's a META tag option. There's lots more elegant ways to just reload data on a timer, using JavaScript, but yeah, the META tag would work. > > Soooo, here's where it gets fun. Create your dashboard page > dynamically using ASP or something (I'd prefer PHP myself), and when > it comes time to write the REFRESH option you can write it the 'X' > value as described before. > > Thus - you can 'push' the reload of the page by changing it's REFRESH > value. > Simple and elegant. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4sT1OVzwV-=n+GkNkjVk7QeEX3D-hbug=tsm8n4uve...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
