(RS) Automatic Refreshing of a report w/out the screen going to an hourglass

[squish88]

Hey all,

   We're using a simple little java script to get the report to automatically refresh every so many seconds.  Problem is, we've got incredibly nitpicky (or nitwitty IMO) management that wants the report to NOT go to the hour glass while it's refreshing... just re-run the query in the background, while leaving the previous results on the screen until the new results are ready to be displayed, then quick blink to the new results once it's done refreshing... anyone have any idea how to keep the old data displayed (instead of the hourglass) while the new data's being retrieved?   This is a Cognos 8.4 report studio report.

Thanks in advance for any/all help!

[blom0344]

I'd say replace your management.

But seriously, the hourglass is nerve-racking to say the least. with ReportNet it was a spinning cube and that was slightly less annoying.

The beauty is, that one can change the hourglass to ANY image. On my laptop I have changed it to a rotating globe.

In your case you can build an image file that would read:

" Your new report will be prepared within seconds.  previous results can be captured by using the ALT+PrintScrn and copying the contents to either Word or whatever program you have in mind"

:D

[cognosjon]

can you not do anything here by scheduling the report to run every x minutes and generate saved output which you can then display? This way the report runs in the background, you would just need to refresh the screen.