The Ajax options is only an alternative, you can combine : - a http meta refresh and/or an ajax - Email - Setting up a random yutube video while the user is waiting :)
Depends on how long it take to generate the PDF. If it is only a few seconds, email is not the best solution... Thomas On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Lee Bolding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 28 Apr 2008, at 15:54, Nicolas Perriault wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> We use PDF generation for creating printing reports. If the user > >> requests a report just after he or she changed the information, the > >> report would have to be created on the fly. > > > > You can imagine to send a notification email when the PDF generation > > job is done, embedding a dowload link :) > > Yeah, I much prefer this approach rather than an AJAX page the user is > "stuck" on whilst waiting for their report. That would result in a > user being unproductive (and frustrated) for a significant amount of > time whilst waiting for their report. > > If you put the job in a queue and allow the user to continue doing > other tasks they'll be much happier :) > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
