Workflow Soluiton

We have all experienced that long wait when you start a process and its processing components before it gets to a FormBuilder and you actullay see something in the browser windoe.  My users are complaining a lot about it so I am trying to find a way to display a 'splash screen' that at least shows them a simple message that the process is loading.

I have not found any component to do that.  I have been trying to see if I can auto submit a formbuilder and then leverage the 'processing' features, no joy yet. 

Has anyone found a working method to accomplish some sort of splach screen effect?

so here's a very absurd method of accomplishing what you're asking for that i came up with just for you friend, and that i'll probably use in mine as well...

i placed another form builder page in front of all the process work, immediately after the start button.

on that page, i placed a textbox and an end component.   the end component i gave a control id of "btnEnter".

the textbox i gave a custom event of attributeskeyvaluepair and set "onfocus" with the event handler of:

onfocus=btnEnter.click();

i set the textbox tab order value to 0 (zero) and the end component tab order value to 1.

i set the component size of both the textbox component and the end component to 1,1.

i then turned on the Processing message.

works great for me!!  let me know if you enjoy my absurdly roundabout way of creating a fun processing page in front of the real work!

to that end, you could put whatever "splash" image you want on the page, so long as the textbox with the onfocus handler is set to tab order zero so's it clicks the "go" button for you when the page loads.

You can use the 'Auto Exit page on Refresh' form component which has a path just like a button, but you don't have to have any buttons on the form or anything at all.

Illustrated in the attached package.

Can you attach this form in a sample?  It does not make sense and I cannot make it work.

sure friend, see attached, but give credit where it's due my pops always said

Absolutely willing to give credit where due - just wanted to see the flow - the instructions first given I could not follow.   This makes more sense now Thanks for the update.

you betcha!  i hope it helps you save the day.

hey don i sure could use another 50 points to go towards my ipo-- oh, wait.  nevermind.  maybe i can buy one if i save up enough $15 gift certificates!

I've tried these and various other solutions.  These solutions work, once the process is loaded into memory.  I still have the delay while the process is loaded into memory.  I think to overcome the delay while the process loads into memory it will take a change to the product.

For now, I will get along with these ideas.  Thanks everyone.