page expired

[920506]

Hi all,
How to display a page similar to "page expired" which can prevent transaction errors when a customer left a page there for more than 30 min. and come back, submit data entered more than 30 minite ago.
I just see some eCommerce web sites have that functionality. Don't know how to do and can you give me a hint. Thank you.

Betty

 

[onpnt]

you'll need to set a timer and refresh that timer on each session refresh. Set it to alert them just prior to the time of your session timeout parm is on IIS

you'll have to do this on the client though or you could look at the golbal.asa and do it also perhaps.


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[DotNetGnat]

...which can prevent transaction errors...

When you said you have seen some e-commerce sites that do this kind of stuff...they not only write custom error pages but also deal a lot with this issue at the database level/end.

They write special triggers and store procedures that involve trasaction level error handling...

-DNG

 

[920506]

Hi onpnt,
Can you give me the detailed directions. I don't know how.
Thank you.
Betty

 

[920506]

Hi DNG,
Do you have a specific article or resouces I can take a look?
Thank you.
Betty

 

[DotNetGnat]

here are some articles that might provide you useful information:

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/080305-1.shtml

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;224070

http://www.asp101.com/wrox/17970703.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1000/Stateless/

-DNG

 

[920506]

Thank you, DNG.
All the informaiton is useful. I already have a customer error page. I am just thinking a way to detect if the
session is timeout or not, if yes then redirect the user to a first page for the data entry instead of the page to transact the expired session data.
Maybe there is not such a simple way to do it.

Betty