9. Use Excel as the backing store?

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On 2011-04-26, at 3:27 PM, David Holt wrote:

> 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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