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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hi DHIS developers,
>
> I would like to make a request for the implementation of some type of
> progress bar that will indicate that some long-term operation is in
> progress. Some data maintainence, import tasks and report generation
> tasks (such as the generation of a dataset for a chart) can take a
> very long time. It has happened that I will not wait for a particular
> operation to complete before moving on and doing something else. Would
> it be possible to
>
> 1) Provide some type of visual clue that an operation is in progress?
> 2) Include some type of JavaScript warning (a la gmail) , perhpas "Are
> you sure you want to navigate away from this page while this operation
> is in progress?" to prevent users from mistakenly navigating away from
> a long-term operation?
>
> Best regards,
> Jason
>

Thanks for providing feedback.

1) We already have this in our issue tracker:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/progress-bars. Will be
incorporated in the 2.0.2 release.

2) This is actually not a problem. The import and datamart functions are run
as background processes, you can go to a different page and then come back
while the processes are running. We are also planning to make a
"background-process-manager", where you can monitor the progress of and
cancel all running background processes.

Lars