[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Looking for a method to display process progress in a dashboard

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For things like processes that need to complete, a progress bar feels like the most natural choice. But beware of multiple progress bars in sequence. For the life of me I cannot imagine why any developer chooses to show more than one progress bar to his user. A progress bar gives some form of feedback on how far the process is in its completion. Once the bar is full, the process is done. Unless there is a second bar of course. And if there is a second, what tells me as a user that there isn't a third, fourth or even more. In other words: I suddenly have no clue how far the process is. So if you cannot tell - as developer - how many steps you need to do, you might be better off using a table listing. Otherwise use a progress bar.

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