[TYPO3-english] Re: How to call an action in background?

[Angela Checa]

Quote: Jigal van Hemert (jigal) wrote on Wed, 09 March 2016 07:26
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> Hi,
> 
> On 08/03/2016 23:47, Angela Checa wrote:
> > I wonder if it is posible to call an Action that run a process in
> > background? I have to generate an excel report in my controller action
> > but this process takes a lot of  time until the report is completed and
> > the user have to wait on line for the report during 15 mins, that have
> > no sense at all, I want to generate the report in background, and send
> > an e-mail to the user with a download link.
> 
> The obvious solution would be that your controller adds the necessary 
> parameters to a record in a table that represent a queue with reports to 
> be generated.
> A scheduler task (quite easy to program; there is also support in 
> extbase for scheduler tasks) that runs every few minutes can process the 
> report generations that are waiting in the queue and send the result to 
> the user.
> A bonus is that the scheduler task will be executed in CLI context which 
> has no maximum execution time.
> 
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> Jigal van Hemert
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Thank you so much for your advice, I´ll start to work on that.