- Creating a Custom Please Wait Page

Creating a Custom Please Wait Page

[PRO] If you do not want to use the WOW default please wait page, you can create your own custom page to use instead. You can use any valid JSP as your please wait page. Any HTML page will work as long as you change the file extension from .html to .jsp or you can create a custom JSP using scriptlets and tag libraries.

Keep in mind that WOW will not add any sort of header or menus to your please wait page. Inside of the PleaseWait property group, you use the JSP property to indicate which JSP should be used as the please wait page:

PleaseWait { jsp: /mydir/mysubdir/mypleasewait.jsp; }

The operation will now use your please wait JSP instead of the default WOW page.

NOTE: The JSP file path used in the example above is relative to the WOW context folder in

Apache Tomcat. For instance, the file path above would be pointing to the following address:

…\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\wow65\mydir\mysubdir\mypleasewait.jsp

If multiple operations are using the same please wait JSP, you can specify the PleaseWait property group containing your JSP in the application properties. Then all operations with please wait pages will use the JSP in the application properties by default. (You must still specify the PleaseWait property group in the operation to indicate that the operation should show a please wait page, but you do not have to include your custom JSP in the operation properties.)