Alert Drilldown Excel

September 26, 2006, 06:24 PM

I have an HTML launch page where you can pick several different spreadsheets to run.

One of the Spreadsheets has a drilldown in the first column...that passes two parameters.
TYPE=DATA,
COLUMN=N1,
FOCEXEC=NEWFEX-KEN-(AREA=N1Period=&Period),
TARGET=new,
$

The Drilldown Focexec...is a compound Spread sheet and takes about 2 minutes to run...but you can't tell it is running...so I would like an Alert to say this <script>

alert("This will take a few minutes to process......");

Problem is, no matter where I put this...the report is finished processing when the alert comes up....not very useful.

I'm not very good with Javascript...so any Ideas on where to stick this? or another thought.

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September 27, 2006, 08:19 AM

paulburridge

Try lateral thinking.
Instead of an alert just call a HTML page with the "one minute please' text (or a .gif) on it. Have this new HTML page call the NEWFEX procedure immediately. (body onload....)
Obviously you will need to pass the parameters, but I'm sure that a Guru can work that one out. :-)

Paul Burridge
Senior Consultant
34 years with Information Builders
WebFOCUS 8.2.5 Win10

September 27, 2006, 09:38 AM

Tony A

Quite right Paul.

An alert will also stop further processing until the alert is acknowledged (unless you issue the alert directly afterwards!).

Prarie,

There have been a few posts on this topic that might assist. try this one for starters.

T

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September 27, 2006, 10:05 AM

Prarie

Thanks Guys...I have some new thoughts to explore.

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