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Call XAgent and Standby Dialog Custom Control

I have Fred Norling's amazing Standby Dialog custom control working on partial refreshes in my applications.

I have one use case though where I am unsure how to utilize it. I am calling an XAgent from a button to export a document collection to Excel (Paul Calhoun's example).

context.redirectToPage("ExcelExport");

Everything works as expected. The Excel file is generated but because it takes a little while I'd like to use the Standby Dialog custom control to indicate that the file is being processed.

As far as I am aware, it can can only be called during a partial refresh though. Any ideas on how to implement it in such a scenario?

Thanks,

Dan

Solution

  • I would use an small Iframe to load the xagent in. Because the standby widget only works with partial refresh

    Set the iframe src from client side js. Add two new functions to my standby widget to manually show and hide the standby loader.

    Add this to the show function

    StandbyDialog_Do=true StandbyDialog_Started()

    And this to the hide function StandbyDialog_Completed()