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murmohk1
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Hi all,
Every time we need to refersh the webpage manually to see the new posts (like view posts since last visit, today's posts page etc....).
Could it be possible to have AUTO  refresh facility for these pages  |
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Anuj Dhawan
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| Could it be possible to have AUTO refresh facility for these pages |
In Mainframe you don't get system response till you press 'attention key'..same way the in Microsoft world 'refresh button' is there. I think, it's not doable..not sure though ! This is from a litle googling..
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| Worse than "META refreshes" are web pages that use embedded JavaScript code to load another page. I've encountered sites whose front pages consist entirely of JavaScript code that checks such things as the user's browser type, the time of day, the phase of the moon, or whatever, and then proceeds to launch different pages in each case. Probably the site author thought they were being pretty clever, but what this means is that any user with a non-JavaScript-capable browser, or who has disabled JavaScript (which many users do for security reasons, given the browser security scares that erupt every few months when another bug is found), ends up seeing a totally blank page. This is a really frustrating thing to inflict on your users. And don't forget that the search engine robots see the same thing when they're indexing your site! |
This link will give a further disccusion on similar type of topic. |
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murmohk1
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Anuj,
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| In Mainframe you don't get system response till you press 'attention key'..same way the in Microsoft world 'refresh button' is there. I think, it's not doable..not sure though ! This is from a litle googling.. |
Did you read the post properly? I had asked for few forum pages (in other words for this website).... and this is NOTHING related to MF. |
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Aaru
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Yes murali, the same thing happens here too and it is always irritating to refresh the page again and again to see if a new post has been posted.
Hope the concerned team will do the needful.
P.S -> I have noted that sometimes it automatically gets refreshed instead of waiting for me to refresh it. |
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murmohk1
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Aaru,
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| I have noted that sometimes it automatically gets refreshed instead of waiting for me to refresh it. |
How come?
Anuj,
Thanks for the link. Actually it serves our purpose (auto refresh). As this is outside of expert forum, Im not sure using this method is advisable or not. |
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Aaru
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Murali,
No idea as to why that is happening. But i have experienced the same before. May be auto-refresh does not work all the time. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
If you "leave" a page and return to it, you typically get a refershed version of the page.
How difficult can it be to click on Refresh when you want to see if there is anything new?
I believe it would be a drawback to constantly refresh and lose the "new" indicator.
If some kind of auto-refresh was implemented, i'd hope that it was profile-selectable, not global. |
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murmohk1
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Dick,
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| If you "leave" a page and return to it, you typically get a refershed version of the page. |
Few days back, because of my normal work..... I haven't refreshed (manually) for just above two hours (logged in and left ideal). But I found the page had not been refreshed.
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| If some kind of auto-refresh was implemented, i'd hope that it was profile-selectable, not global |
Could you share some more info on how to do this? |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| Could you share some more info on how to do this? |
There is no way to do this att his time.
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If some kind of auto-refresh was implemented, i'd hope that it was profile-selectable, not global |
If a way is implemented, my preference is that it be selectable, not global.
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| Few days back, because of my normal work..... I haven't refreshed (manually) for just above two hours (logged in and left ideal). But I found the page had not been refreshed. |
You did not "leave" the page - it was still active in a window and would not refresh. To get the "refresh" without clkicking Refresh, click on some link on the page, then later, click on "Back". When it goes back, the page in question will be refreshed. To me, it is too easy to simply click refresh when i want to see what has changed. |
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mcmillan
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We had this facility (in the Recent Topics) but removed it due to the heavy resource usage and server load.
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| Could you share some more info on how to do this? |
Press 'F5' key to get the latest version from Server Cache, Press 'CTRL+F5' to bypass the cache. |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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For those who just do not bother to read about their pc based applications, for example your web browser:
firefox has an option to reload/refresh a particular tab every nnn secs.
for those of you with untabbed explorer, you need to do what mcm suggestioned - PF5 - you will find that this works on any website, because it is a behaviour of your web browser, which you would know, had you bothered to learn about the tool that you are using instead of asking someone else to provide a solution to a non-problem.
as far as maintaining an open website in your browser, for convenience - in case you just gotta look at some new post - that is wasting resources on your pc. but since your are at work, you probably don't care about wasting someone elses' resources. |
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murmohk1
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Dick,
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| firefox has an option to reload/refresh a particular tab every nnn secs. |
At workplace, we dont have luxury of Firefox. |
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Anuj Dhawan
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Hi Murali,
A professional usually think from the mind-set in which s/he works. if I ask a question to different professioanls "How should we live our life ?"
Doctor might say..Do good exercise from your early age, keep a tight check on your BP, Cholesterol etc. in you mid 40s...etc.
Advocate: File your returns on time..
..& so on.
So from this
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| In Mainframe you don't get system response till you press 'attention key'..same way the in Microsoft world 'refresh button' is there. |
I meant, F5 of Microsoft word is equivalent to press 'attention key' of Mainframes (as far as you are intrested to get the 'current' status of webpage or SYSOUT respectvely). as we both work in Mainframe world..I thought it would convey a better message.. but ..
However, I think, logically it's not a good idea to have "auto-refresh".
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