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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lars,
I should have checked the issue tracker but good to hear it will be
incorporated. :)

Regards,
Jason




2009/4/2 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
>
>