Yes, I once did the user scope thing for smaller found sets. If the set is
large, all those user scopes add up to a log of RAM
The prev/next is a royal pain. Easier to create set of links for 1-15,
16-30,...


On 10/21/04 7:36 AM, "Dale Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Actually if you have the whole set in the array, and are just
> displaying sections of it, then you can set the sorts into user scopes,
> and proceed. Of course then you *do* have to do some work on your
> prev/next buttons, but, hey! that's a fun learning experience! heh heh
> 
> On Oct 21, 2004, at 9:15 AM, Roland Dumas wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, but then try using the prev/next button snippets...
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/21/04 3:41 AM, "Dale Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>> This isn't quite the same as what you are asking, but what we do is to
>>> get the data out as a user scoped array, then allow the user to select
>>> how they wish to sort the data, and sort the array accordingly and
>>> redisplay the page. What's nice about this is we can offer complex
>>> sorts this way (e.g., sort by author and then by most recent year or
>>> sort by year only or sort by author and then by oldest year, etc)
>>> 
>>> On Oct 21, 2004, at 1:03 AM, Roland Dumas wrote:
>>> 
>>>> In a search action, one sets the sort fields and the ASC DESC sort
>>>> orders.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there any way to control the sort order (ASC DESC) by a variable?
>>>> 
>>>> One can always sort the resultset, but that's only sorting the piece
>>>> of the
>>>> totalrows
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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