Perspectives Progress Bar

[holger_b]

I found this post where you can find a link to a VBA solution for a progress bar http://www.tm1forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=601, but I can not yet figure out how one would retrieve the progress information in TM1 while a process runs. Is this possible at all? Did anyone ever manage to create a "real" progress bar?

[tomok]

You can't effectively create your own progress bar because you can't programmatically communicate with the server while a TI is being run in order to determine where the process stands. Even though it is quite poor, TI already provides a progress window so I doubt you'll be seeing anything added to the TM1 suite in the near future to address this.

[jim wood]

If they did add a progress bar I'm guessing like all other progress bars it would be wrong. As Tomok said they include a box that tells how many lines have been processed. I don't think TI opens the source to find the max number of lines (may be in the case of a DB query) so that might be a change needed to the underlying mechanics. As Tomok also said that won't be happening any time soon.

[holger_b]

That is what I thought as well, though I hoped anyone might have found a way...

Thank you, Jim and tomok.

Regards
Holger