Trigger parallel script through iframe

[Frank van Rotterdam]

Goodday,

 

I have a script that mails an invoice to the user. This takes to long to have the user wait for it.

Would it be possible to trigger the mailsending script in an iframe and continue the flow ?

 

I assume (!) once triggered, the script will continue to run when the iframe is closed ( the user has gone to the next page.)

 

Any experience with this ?

 

Alternative would be to do a server script that polls the database. I'm just not that big fan of server scripts and polling in general.

 

Cheers !

 

Frank.

[Jeroen Aarts]

Frank, There is no such thing as an iFrame natively in FileMaker. If you are using FileMaker Server, you could either set up a queue table and let FileMaker Server send mails via SMTP and a server-side script, or you could use the new FileMaker 13 Perform Script On Server script steps. With the latter, you could asynchronously perform scripts on the server

[Frank van Rotterdam]

Ah. I'm still at FM 12, so I'll go for the queueing mechanism for now.

 

Thanks!

 

Frank.