I had a similar problem, the work around I employed was to do the email at a later date from a method I ran from the server. I imagine it would not be too much more difficult to have a process running in the background that checked for new records and then went about sending the emails
gt On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 05:46AM, billmccarvell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After pressing submit button immediately move to the next page or an >interim page, so that user feels like something is happening in the >background and not stalled. (without loosing the form variables) > >The specific example is, someone fills out a comment page, they press >submit. I have Active4D move the user to a thankyou.a4d page that then >writes the content to a table and sends an email to my client, the user >and bcc to myself. > >The time it takes to move from pressing the submit button to the >thankyou.a4d page is long (in internet time). > >Is there a way to move the user (immediately) to a (a) blank page, then >to the thankyou.a4d page after the processing is done, or (b) blank >page with the words 'processing...' written on it or.... (whatever >gives the user the impression that things are being done and not >stalled). Is there a generic way to do this so that I could use the >technique every time there might be a delay between pressing the button >and bring back the response? The database is uncompiled if that makes a >difference. I hope this makes sense... > >Thanks, > >Bill McCarvell > >_______________________________________________ >Active4d-dev mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev > > Graham Timmins RMIT University 9925 4272 0412 667 007 _______________________________________________ Active4d-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev
