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

[Dale Bengston]

The only way AJAX would materially speed up an action like this is by  
eliminating the FMSA queries altogether. This is something I'm  
experimenting with, but I don't have a working version yet. It goes  
like this:

Store the FX data array in a session variable (for example, your 100  
products).
Send the $_POST from your Compare form submit to a php page via AJAX.
Use PHP to extract the records from the session variable based on the  
checked boxes in $_POST.
Return the subset of records to the html page.

This is a simplified scenario, but it's a workable option.

You're right that many other sites use this check-and-compare  
interface. The difference between what we're doing is, they're  
probably using a database that supports OR constructs, so they can  
just re-query for the records selected. With FileMaker, we have to  
fake it.

Dale

On Apr 23, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:

> Hmmm...  I think that you might be right.
>
> How would AJAX deal with this situation?
>
> Just to be clear, I don't feel that this is an unusual request.  We  
> all use this functionality every day on the web:
> 	- Check off emails to be deleted from web mail listing.
> 	- Checking multiple products in HP to compare printers.
> 	- Selecting multiple photos on our favorite online photo printing  
> site to order, rotate, etc.
> 	- At the AppleStore, configuring a new computer. ( This one is  
> definitely JAVA).
>
> Surely many of you are coding this stuff already, aren't you?
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>> I think you are approaching the level of using ajax...
>>
>> ggt667
>>
>> On 4/23/07, Dale Bengston <dbengston at preservationstudio.com> wrote:
>>> 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"?
>>>>
>>>>  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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