Hello all,

I've currently got a progress bar that I use for my data entry scripts
and I wanted to figure out a way to also display an "estimated"
completion time that is updated based on the time it takes to process a
record.

 

Any ideas how I could do something of this nature?

 

My process is that I count the total records in the datasource, and then
do an update of the progress bar after each D.Next_:

 

 

As far as estimating time, what I do now is sit there and watch a record
be processed, start to finish, counting in my head "one-one thousand,
two-one thousand, three-one thousand", etc until the record finishes. I
know it's not totally accurate, but it gives me an idea how many seconds
each record takes. I take that total, multiply by the total records,
divide by 60 twice to get hours in decimals and then subtract whole
hours, multiply by 60 to get minutes. I can then add the hours and
minutes to the script start time and get an estimated time of
completion.

 

For the purpose of the status bar, I would just be interested in some
time of "estimated completion in xx:xx minutes" type of update on each
record processed.

 

I'm stuck on what formula to use though. Thoughts?

 

 

Thank you,

Mitch Lawrence

Lead Applications Analyst

Technical Support - NPR/Automation

CHRISTUS Information Management

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