Indicate to the user that a table has updated its contents

Question

Hi,
I have some criteria but I am not sure where to go or if it is even possible.
What I have is a jspx page with a table on it.
I have a poll that periodically re-executes the query for the table. If there are any changes then the table is refreshed automatically.
This is great for when the user is looking at the page and he/she can see the new row appear as they are looking at the table.
However the users that are going to be using my application will likely to have the page open, but have the window minimized.
So to allow for a better user experience I would like to be able to notify the user when there has been a change on the page. (Instead of the user periodically checking the page; to find out that the data is the same)
What I would like to do is make the minimized window flash, which generally happens when you open up a new window, or a new message appears on msn messenger/pigeon. The minimized window flashes to indicate to the user that there has been a change (So to indicate a new row has appeared).
Does anybody know if this is possible? And how to approach this problem?
Thanks,
Steve
I am currently using JDeveloper 10.1.3

Answer 1

thanks for the reply,
but i cant use just html like <input type hidden > as i'm using the struts like framework with the netui tags in weblogic where i need to link the tag value to the form bean to be passed to the server . thus i need to use the netui tag , which doesnt have a name but a tagId instead, so i'm using it like this :
<netui:hidden tagId="teleCarerId" dataSource="{actionForm.teleCarerId}" dataInput=""/>and then in javascrpit doing:
//document.form.teleCarerId.value = row.cells[4].innerText;but thats not my problem ()as it probably will work and its only an issue after i resolve the first part of my question:-
which is how do i hide a cloumn in a table and its values so that when the user selects a row i can pass the hidden value of row as part of my form .
as i mentioned before when i make the cloumn visible as in
  <th><rpb:columnHeader field="TELECARERID"><i18n:getMessage messageName="telecarer_id"/></rpb:columnHeader></th>and give it a visible value:
  <td><netui:label value="{container.item.TELECARERID}"/></td>
       </tr>i can pick up the value fine using the javascript syntax:
row.cells[4].innerText;however when i hide only the value - which is only part of what i want to do as i want to also hide the column heading so that this part of the table isnt seen- as in:-
<td><netui:hidden dataInput="{container.item.TELECARERID}" dataSource="" /></td>then i cant use
row.cells[4].innerText;to pick up the value although it does hide the value and in viewsourec the value is there - is there some other syntax that i should be using here - and also how can i hide the cloumn heading so that the table looks asthtically good on the browser?
ie. what should i change this line of code to?
  <th><rpb:columnHeader field="TELECARERID"><i18n:getMessage messageName="telecarer_id"/></rpb:columnHeader></th>thanks in advance for any help.