Generate PDF-Report (too slow)

[ianb]

Here is a link where someone asked a similar question and I pointed them to a clone link with some example code of background tasks working:

Increase server timeout

Like @james2 said, background tasks are probably the answer you want to go with to do anything that is taking longer than 30 seconds. Here is a link to a post with a clone link to an example app I made: * *wow than sentence seems way more complicated than it actually is.

Here is another link where I just showed off an easy formatting style to keep track of what is what:

Get id of background task from inside the task

I have all of my background tasks separated out and get called by other functions that are organized as ‘background task generators’, this way I can grab information about the task object before I return it to the client, or another function etc. This way you could grab the id from the task object, store it in your data table, then return the task object to whatever called it to begin with (or send it nowhere, whatever). Example server module: [image] blah blah background task decorated fun…

Finally, here is a link to when I discovered background tasks due to someone asking about them, with some of the sharper points of the docs smoothed out for a newcomer to the concept:

How to get media generated from background task to the client side

Let me start by saying I have not used background tasks, so I read the documentation and I think you just need to layer one more step by creating a callable function that returns a task object that is created by running your decorated ‘@anvil.server.background_task’ function. The result of this background task function should return the media object you want. When task.is_completed() becomes True, the value of task.get_return_value() will be the media object.

This should solve many issues someone might have, if the issue really is background task-related.

Edit: You may also run into a problem ( as detailed in the last link ) where you are trying to return a media object directly to the client from a background task, AFAIK that is still not something you are able to do, and something there are have been many discussions about already, with workarounds, etc.