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I have a plugin that starts a task and subtasks from a CP widget AJAX call. The tasks are running without a hitch, but for some reason on production, the icon does not appear when the tasks start running unless I refresh the page.

On my local dev site (MAMP), the task icon appears as soon as the code below is called.

I am using this code to start the pending tasks I created:

Craft.cp.runPendingTasks();

Any ideas? Is there a different JS command I should be using?

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  • I've seen that on some setups with gzip compression enabled (either at the Apache level or at the PHP level). Might be worth checking. – Brad Bell Mar 11 '15 at 22:17
  • Yup, it looks like that is the case. Any thoughts on getting around it? It isn't imperative that the circle displays, but the visual feedback is nice. – Aaron Berkowitz Mar 12 '15 at 20:53
  • We've spent a ton of time looking into it and it comes down to the fact that PHP sucks. Workaround is to set buildwithcraft.com/docs/config-settings#runTasksAutomatically to false and setup an external cron job to trigger tasks. – Brad Bell Mar 12 '15 at 20:55
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I use this to force the task icon to show up immediately:

Craft.cp.setRunningTaskInfo({
    "id": "task ID",
    "level": "0",
    "description": "description",
    "status": "running",
    "progress": 0
});
Craft.cp.trackTaskProgress();
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