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

[Dale Bengston]

If you retrieve the entire 100 record set again, then you can tick  
through the retrieved data and compare each record's id with the  
checked items and only display the ones that match the checks.

Dale



On Apr 22, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:

> 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"?
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> Jonathan
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> 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
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>> On Apr 22, 2007, at 9:47 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>> Alex,
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>>> 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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