Progress Page for a long process

[ccordes]

HI,

Is there a simple way to create a page that will display a "Please wait" message while a process runs?
Right now, I start the porocess and everything worked fine until a large client dumped their data and before the process was complete, they got a page timed out error.

I'm guessing that I could call a form or page and from that page start the process on a separate thread. I need a way to know when the process is complete so I can then display the final status/results of the process.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
chris