[FX.php List] Convoluted scheme for creating summaries

[Dale Bengston]

To reiterate, I have a site that chews through several thousand  
records. But, I would not consider displaying every record in such a  
situation. Twelve thousand records on a screen is not useful to an  
end user. I'm using php to aggregate and summarize that data for a  
much simpler display. This is in an FMP environment that I have no  
control over, so all I can do is go get raw records and do my own  
aggregation.

So the FX found set does not necessarily equal what the user sees on  
the screen.

Dale

On Aug 21, 2006, at 10:25 PM, Kevin Futter wrote:

> On 22/8/06 1:06 PM, "Bob Patin" <bob at patin.com> wrote:
>
>> Dale,
>>
>> I definitely get more than 25 records, but I thought I read  
>> somewhere that 50 was the cutoff... I'll do some testing and find  
>> out for sure...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob
>
> You can display as many as you like – it’s just that if you leave  
> the $groupSize variable empty, then it will default to FM’s in- 
> built 25-record limit. Perhaps FX has a default value for  
> $groupSize of 50, which gets passed to FM in the absence of any  
> other value. Either way, it’s usually best to control it yourself  
> by stipulating a number, and 50 is about the maximum you’d usually  
> consider, even for a simple table display of one line per record.  
> For a long-defunct personal project, I used to set $groupSize to  
> 1000, and displayed them all in a table on the same page.
>
> -- 
> Kevin Futter
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