Intermediate Waiting Page

[MinalMoe]

Creating a flight booking system in MX7. Starting from a form on the start page, the action transfers the details to the next page where the form fields are input into a cfxml component which is then sent to the Web Server waiting for a response.

The system sits at the start page which holds the form. that does nothing for the client. It would be much better if I could make the action go to an interim waiting page, with a sales message on it, and then when the web server response is ready - then the results page comes up. Sitting at the Form page without any change in aspect isn't very user friendly.

Any ideas would be appreciated - thanks.

 

[ecobb]

Sounds like a job for cfflush on your action page. Here's the livedoc on it:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/5.0/CFML_Reference/Tags30.htm

There's a good copy-n-paste example at the bottom.

In theory, this should let the action page start loading, instead of sitting at the Form page. Then you could put whatever message you want on it while the xml is processing.


Hope This Helps!

ECAR
ECAR Technologies

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[MinalMoe]

CFFlush is great with Firefox - shame it doesn't work with Interent Explorer or Deepnet - any ideas?