Adding a Timer to a form

tdickens

I am using the Cloud version of Mongoose.

We have forms that display a list of data.  The user is requesting that the list refresh automatically.  I'm researching to see if we could use a Timer on the form to refresh the list.  I see this statement in the Help:

Note: When the form closes, the timer stops automatically for that form. In the web client, the timer also stops whenever the form that uses it loses the focus.

Can someone define what "whenever the form that uses it loses focus" means?  I'm taking it that if the user opens another tab in their browser then the form loses focus.  Is that correct?  If so, then I think a Timer won't do exactly what we want.  I think the user just needs to be trained to refresh the page.

Does anyone have any experience using a Timer on a form that they can share?

Yao Jiang

I believe your interpretation is correct. Opening another form tab would cause the timer to lose focus. Besides the Mongoose timer you can also try using a Javascript timer coupled with a web asset control/component to fire an event to update the UI. Although I think this has the same issue as the Mongoose timer when the user navigates to another form tab.