>>Any advice on how to handle the following:-
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>>One form in my application has a timer that triggers every 15 minutes.
>>This runs code that can last up to 2 minutes (sending and retrieving emails using westwind).
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>>In the meantime the user is "stuck", as the form they were working on is not available until the code has finished running.
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>>What can I do to give the user a better experience?
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>>Any suggestions are welcome.
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Thanks to all for the interesting suggestions.
Cyril