[FX.php List] Accepting user input on multiple records simultaneously

[Jonathan Schwartz]

In my example below, I was suggesting...what if worst case, all 100 
records were checked on a page.  Then that would produce 100 FMP 
requests in order to update all 100.  That just doesn't seem right.

What do you mean "filter the records"?

Jonathan






At 10:22 PM -0500 4/22/07, Dale Bengston wrote:
>Why not get the same found set as displayed initially and filter the 
>records to just the ones checked? Even with 100 records, I would 
>expect this to be much faster than five separate find requests to 
>FMSA for one record apiece. And this is a much better scenario than 
>editing those records to somehow flag them.
>
>Dale
>
>On Apr 22, 2007, at 9:47 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>
>>At 8:48 PM -0500 4/22/07, Alex Gates wrote:
>>>Hi Jonathan-
>>>
>>>Maybe I don't understand exactly what you are trying to do, but 
>>>why not just do a separate find for each of the desired "checked" 
>>>records?
>>>
>>>Alex
>>
>>
>>Alex,
>>
>>I guess that that is what is needed...loop thru the checked records 
>>and issue an FMEdit() for each record checked. Seems like alot of 
>>bandwidth.  What if there are 100 records on a page?
>>
>>Jonathan
>>
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