Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> Neil Ireson wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My major sticking point with the using Exhibit is the limited number of
>> items it can handle. I know this is not it's primary purpose, I think David
>> has said somewhere that it is suited to display between 50-500 items, whilst
>> I (and I believe others) would be interested in applying the software to
>> 1000s or even 10000s of items. I know there is Longwell but it is not as
>> simple to prototype and the interface is just not as intuitive as that in
>> Exhibit.
>>
> [snip]
>
> It's worth noting that David wrote both Longwell-CSI and Exhibit, in
> that order.
>
We are closing in on hopefully the right solution. First, we started
with Longwell, which scales relatively well but is difficult to
configure. Then we built Longwell-CSI, which is easier to integrate with
an arbitrary web site but is still not sufficiently configurable. Then
we built Exhibit, easy to configure but does not scale. The next thing
will incorporate all of the lessons we've learned, and we're targeting
both scalability and configurability. That is not trivial and will take
us some time.
Onto the more technical details, if you want your exhibit to render only
a few items, then you need to set both
ex:grouped="false"
ex:showAll="false"
This is because if grouping is on, then the showAll setting is overridden.
You can also configure the number of items you want to render
ex:abbreviatedCount="50"
We currently don't support pagination, but we would welcome patches to
our code!
By the way, Safari 3 is quite a bit faster than Firefox and IE.
David
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