Providing live feedback to users showing progress of triggered reload automation

[ingoniclas]

Hi guys,

My users need to be able to trigger the reload of apps manually. I have achieved this by providing a button that triggers a triggered automation as described in the following thread: https://community.qlik.com/t5/Official-Support-Articles/Triggering-an-automation-from-a-button-on-a-...

This works fine (most of the times). However, often it's irritating to the users that there is no live feedback upon triggering the reload process. They are used to the reload mask in the QlikView personal documents providing them instantly with a live progress on the reload prpcess. Now they don't get any feedback and find that irritating. In particular since sometimes the loading process takes much longer than usual with the same amount of data (that's another issue I'd like to solve at some point). So I've been asked to provide some kind of progress feedback again so that the users can see that the app is actually carrying out the reload process. Is there a way to set this up within the triggered automation? 

Thanks for ideas!

Best

Ingo

[blaise]

maybee setup a variable and show it in the GUI (maybe as label for the trigger automation button) and let the automation set a "reloading..." value of this variable, save the app (to sync the state to all sessions) and then reload the app. The app script can then set this variable to now() or something like that so the user directly see how long time has passed since last reload.