Automatically stop and start web publishing

[Osman]

Hi,

I have searched in forum but i can not found an answer.

The databases published on the web is updated every day. Update process is more than half hour. So during the update my visitors can not see right contents. I want to stop web publishing engine before starting to update and stops after update.

(Update process is done automaticly by a script)

Stopping and starting can be done automatically?

And can I forward to "Site is updating" page during the update process?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Osman

[Brian C]

You could just make sure that before users are allowed to view data, a script must first be run that checks to see if you are running processes. You can have a field flagged in a table specifically for this process. If the field has anything in it, you could just direct the user to a screen that lets them know that processes are being run and that data will be available shortly.

I think this is a better way to go anyway since it is better than the users not reaching any page at all - which could cause more phone calls because they think the server has crashed...

[Osman]

i will consider your comments.

thanks