Please wait or portlet loading message

Question

How are you guys handling this for both stand alone portlets and adabptive porltets? Click in portlet A, portlet B should show "loading..." (or somehting) while you wait for content. You guys using standard js? putting the js in the header portlet or in each portlet?
Thanks!

Answer 1

i'm sure there is a better way to do it lately using something like jquery but this is how we did it in the past. i would name a div and then use a function to set the div inner html to "loading..." and also register for the callback at the same time so it would show loading until the the event registered for was fired from another portlet. hope this helps.
<script type="text/javascript">
//there is a bug in the .NET filter 2.2 which causes FireFox to get into infinite loop.
//this ensures that the PCC is loaded once.
//myRegistrationVar is a bogus variable.
if(typeof(myRegistrationVar2) == 'undefined')
     var container = document.getElementById('highlight_content');
     container.innerHTML = "<br><center>Loading Data. Please Wait...</center></br>";
     //PCC.RegisterForEvent("urn:plumtree:Indigo:BroadCast", "RaiseProdID", GetValues_$$TOKEN$$);
     //pause(2000);
     PCC.RegisterForEvent('urn:schemas.plumtree.epri:changeID','changeID', changeDiv_$$TOKEN$$);
var myRegistrationVar2 = 0;
}