Tom Chiverton wrote: > > I still maintin that if you are even trying to send 2000 of anything down to > the client (HTML, WebService or Flex), you need to rethink things - there is > no way a user can cope with 2000 things at once, so why send them all at > once ?
I hate seeing responses like this. I've got an data inquiry application where clients regularly pull back thousands of records into a data grid. The datagrid contains basic information about each record in the database (in this case, people) with links to a detail screen about each entity. Then, they'll go through the records pulling out specific details about the entities... they might just be "eyeballing" the results to make sure it looks like they expect it to before generating a drop file or a printed report. The datagrid itself can handle thousands of rows quite efficiently... at least in AS3. Here's an example. Let's say they're looking for numerous people with the same last name: Smith. They do a last name search on all the Smith's who graduated in 1975. Then they use the datagrid filter I've set up and they type in "Emily" and the grid gets filtered down to X records... they find the specific person, then they clear the filter and type in "James". Again, the data is filtered down without hitting the server. They do it one more time and type in "Robert" and find who they'rel ooking for. Sure, I could do three individual searches, but from the USERS perspective, the way I've described it above is much more efficient, and a lot easier for them to use. There *ARE* reasons to bring back large amounts of data sometimes. Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:261598 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
