I think this would be very helpful!

I have actually hit the EXIT button on the Enter Workorder screen before EVO had finished processing and ended up with a partial WO BOM.  This would be a good idea.

This would save a lot of crashes because of our impatience!

Probably the best suggestion yet.  Even an hourglass or other icon can get ignored by a user if they think is it taking longer than they want.

This is really something my users need - they are frequently assuming nothing is happening because there's no obvious progress indicator for them, and thus assume Evo is hung and CTRL-ALT-DEL out of it. When I sit with them and show them it is doing something and prompt them to give it a little more time, then they see I was right, however they are quick to point out it's not their fault, they can't tell (and they have zero patience to wait, unfortunately).  This tends to corrupt my Pervasive NLM over time, a huge issue for us.  It is true that if they would purge and archive, the wait would be far less time. And that I am working on getting them to do.  In the meantime, this is a huge issue nonetheless. I can't be the only company with end users like ours.
 
Val