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Your doProgress() function body is wrapped by a document ready function - $(function() { ... }). This means that you code is executed when the document is ready, which has probably already happened. Try removing this.

Thanks.

That turned out to be a big problem.  I also discovered a few other things to clean up after that.

It works well enough now that I can finish it off.   This is what that second code block looks like now for people Googling on similar issues:


    function quietSubmit(){
        var org_abbr = document.form1.org_abbr.value;
       
        alert(org_name + " has " + record_count + " records, download?");
        $.post("/acme/getphonelist", $("#org_name").serialize() );
        doProgress();       
        return true;
    }
   
    function doProgress(){
         var progressbar   = $( "#progressbar" );
         var progressLabel = $( ".progress-label" );
       
        /* changing of progress bar text */
        $( "#progressbar" ).progressbar({
         change: function(){progressLabel.text( progressbar.progressbar( "value" ) + "%" );},
         complete: function(){progressLabel.text( "Complete!" );}
        });
       

        setTimeout( progress, 1000 );
       
    }// end doProgress()
   
    function progress() {
       
        var val = 0;              

        $.post("/acme/getprogress", function(data){
            val = data;
            $( "#progressbar" ).progressbar("option","value",data);
         });
               
        if ( val < 100 ) {
         setTimeout( progress, 250 );
        }
    }