# Put a series of actions into one transaction, need a display to show the transaction is progressing

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 31, 2023, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/put-a-series-of-actions-into-one-transaction-need-a-display-to-show-the-transaction-is-progressing/83645 "2023-12-31T16:15:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/put-a-series-of-actions-into-one-transaction-need-a-display-to-show-the-transaction-is-progressing/83645/4 "2023-12-31T16:42:42Z")

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Based on the OP's other topics, I am going to assume Vision.

If that assumption is correct, check this out;

> [@Update GUI via Asynchronous thread](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/update-gui-via-asynchronous-thread/9666):
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> I’ve got a script I am experimenting with that can take a lot of time to execute, so I now use the system.util.invokeAsynchronous to run the script in a separate thread to keep the GUI from locking up. I am using the asynchronous thread to copy files from one place to another, and I would like to show the progress of the file copy with a progress bar. How would I go about this? I am importing a few python libraries to do this. import shutil def fileTransfer(): path = system.file.openFile() …

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