Hi, I'm running a company intranet and the portion in question is the
company message board. Its becoming a very integral part of company
discussion on most of our projects. What I would like to be able to do is
have it so that a user can leave the message board opened and minimized and
have it alert him in some way when something new has been posted.
Unfortunately i dont want to just keep auto-refreshing the page at certain
intervals because i'm concerned about xp users (if it refreshes it'll start
flashing at them even if there is no new data, this could get annoying).
Is there a way to alert the page when posts occur or have the page check the
SQL database every so often without fully refreshing the page unless there
is a change to the database? I'm currently working in vbscript with some
javascript thrown in on some pages so an answer in either of these languages
would work for me.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide!
Chris Coho,
ccoho@jrwald.co m
company message board. Its becoming a very integral part of company
discussion on most of our projects. What I would like to be able to do is
have it so that a user can leave the message board opened and minimized and
have it alert him in some way when something new has been posted.
Unfortunately i dont want to just keep auto-refreshing the page at certain
intervals because i'm concerned about xp users (if it refreshes it'll start
flashing at them even if there is no new data, this could get annoying).
Is there a way to alert the page when posts occur or have the page check the
SQL database every so often without fully refreshing the page unless there
is a change to the database? I'm currently working in vbscript with some
javascript thrown in on some pages so an answer in either of these languages
would work for me.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide!
Chris Coho,
ccoho@jrwald.co m