Need to Auto-Refresh multiple pages

lkarelee · Joined: 02 Sep 2009 Posts: 3

We have fleet maintenance shops that display on-going work on big monitors mounted on the walls. In some our shops the work order count can exceed 100 lines - the page size is easiest to read is about 75 lines. We need to be able to have the display REFRESH to page 2 (if it exists) then after 3-4 minutes REFRESH back to page 1 and then wait another 3-4 minutes and go to page 2.

Currently the pages do REFRESH every 300 seconds using the following HTML code <meta http-equiv="refresh" content = "300"

Can we refresh to the next page then back again?

sticks464 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 2311

Yes, put a redirect/refresh statement on each page

Example: (enter on 1st page)

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 3599 Location: Biloxi, MS

As I see it, there has to be a page 2 to do it the easy way. The easy way is the normal meta refresh timed to go to the other page. Page 1 would have the refresh to go to page 2 and page 2's meta refresh back to page 1. The timing for refresh is set in normal way. JavaScript also can be used for this refresh.

lkarelee · Joined: 02 Sep 2009 Posts: 3

Let me understand - this will only work if there are always 2 pages - correct? If there is not enough open work to require more than 75 lines then there is no way to do this?

thanks for your help

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 3599 Location: Biloxi, MS

Well, if the 1st page refreshes to a page that is not there, you may get an error. As long as there is something at the URL 1st page is refreshing to, then there shouldn't be a problem. I would think it could be blank

Can that be set up that way?

lkarelee · Joined: 02 Sep 2009 Posts: 3

Not sure - since these pages are created 'dynamically' as needed ( we use Code Charge Studio to create our display pages) - not sure how that would work.

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 3599 Location: Biloxi, MS

The alternative is to get someone to write a script for that function. Maybe PHP and set it up to generate new page after a certain amount of lines then go to that page for an x-amount of time. The code writer would know best how to get it written to do what you need it to do.

Maybe something like this:

Load pages using URL variables and PHP include() function