Just a thought, but isn't there a button in the CF Administrator to run
a scheduled task?
Does it run it immediately in a browser, or just queue it up? I thought
it just queued it up (but not sure), doing exactly what you want it to do.
If so, you can decode the CF Administrator and see how they did it...
At 11:51 AM 05/29/2001 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Is there a way to run a Cold Fusion page not through a browser, but spawned
>from a browser... confused.. imagine this...
>
>I want to give my user a button to click on a web page that runs a very
>lengthy process, say exporting the entire database to a CSV file, but I dont
>want to do the processing in a browser window, because if my user closes
>that window halfway through, it might cancel the processing. Is there a way
>to get the server processing something but not relying on a browser window
>for it?
>
>One way I can think of is to set up a one off CFSCHEDULE command to execute
>a page in 5 seconds time, which then removes itself from the schedule, but
>that seems a little messy.. any better way?
>
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>Newgency Pty Ltd
>2a Broughton St
>Paddington 2021
>Sydney, Australia
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>Fax (02) 9331 5199
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>
>
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