8. Export directly to Excel?

On 2011-04-26, at 3:23 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:

> 7. Installing a ODBC driver to connect to the database from Excel or
> OpenOffice and let them work in Excel..,
> 
> Le 2011-04-26 à 18:15, Chuck Hill <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
>> I see that you have a few options:
>> 
>> 1. Fire your client.
>> 2. Educate your client.
>> 3. Figure out what they really need to do (NEED vs Implementation aka Excel) 
>> and deliver an interface that meets their needs in a far, far more effective 
>> way than scrolling in Excel.
>> 4. Torture your client with a painfully low and ineffective UI
>> 5. Use pure client side JavaScript as Mike suggested
>> 6. Switch to divs so that the UI renders faster and you can update 
>> individual rows.
>> 
>> 
>> Chuck
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 26, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
>> 
>>> I guess I should have started off by saying that my user demands that all 
>>> rows of data be visible all the time (because this is what it looks like in 
>>> excel). I even have a boolean to not show old data but she insists that all 
>>> data (including legacy data) is important and she needs to see it all the 
>>> time (so nothing gets marked as 'complete').
>>> 
>>> I think it sucks big time, but what can I do? I have been dragging my feet 
>>> for 3 weeks already and the only solution I have found was to wrap every 
>>> row in an UpdateContainer.
>>> 
>>> Ted
>>> 
>>> --- On Tue, 4/26/11, Chuck Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> From: Chuck Hill <[email protected]>
>>>> Subject: Re: AjaxUpdateContainer ?
>>>> To: "Theodore Petrosky" <[email protected]>
>>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>>> Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 1:56 PM
>>>> 
>>>> On Apr 26, 2011, at 5:16 AM, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I am presenting a table to my user and I am noticing
>>>> that the number of rows that they want to keep current is
>>>> growing to more than 1k.
>>>>> 
>>>>> One of the UI issues is to color individual rows that
>>>> signify specific meta data (ie. row is red so it is
>>>> important, green is something else).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Currently, I have one AjaxUpdateContainer wrapping the
>>>> whole table. If the user updates the row color, I fire the
>>>> container update. But with over 1k rows, this is starting to
>>>> take time (10 - 15 seconds). So I thought that I would wrap
>>>> the individual row in its own update container.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Before I jump into this, I thought I would ask. If I
>>>> had 1000 update containers on my page, am I shooting myself
>>>> in the foot? Or is this what the AjaxUpdateContainer is made
>>>> for? Or do I have to update the whole table for the row
>>>> color to update (with CSS)?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> It is probably not much worse than a 1000 row table, a 1000
>>>> row table is pretty bad already.  :-)  That is a
>>>> terrible interface, IMO.  You need to batch the data
>>>> and keep the table small.  See AjaxGrid for one way to
>>>> do this.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Chuck
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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