Good morning, I have a client script that calls a suitelet that does background processing. I'd like to put up a spinner or a message indicating stuff is happening. In the client script I've tried using ui.message and/or changing the cursor but the call to the suitelet (via https.post) is taking over before the message is displayed. for example:

function onButtonClick(){
  myMsg2 = message.create({
            title: "Work Order Issue", 
            message: "Creating and Auto Allocating Work Order Issue", 
            type: message.Type.INFORMATION
        });
  myMsg2.show()
  var response = <http://https.post|https.post>({
            url: outputURL,
            body: JSON.stringify(bodyObj)
  });
}

Any ideas?

We use this in a client script:

function showSpinnerAndDoLogic(spinnerHtml) {
    jQuery('#div__body').css('display', 'none');
    jQuery('body').append(spinnerHtml);
    goDoThings = function () {
        //Do some business logic here
    };
    setTimeout((function () {
        return goDoThings();
    }), 25);
};

A simple solution I use when handling this sort of thing is

<http://https.post|https.post>().promise()

. In your

.then()

put

myMsg2.hide()

followed by your response message, and in your

.catch()

put

myMsg2.hide()

followed by an error message.

This was a big help thanks everyone!