RE: Design Patterns for Database Maintenance Screens

>The question being whether a "fixed" screen is more appropriate 

I think you need a combination of both. I would put more than 18 (about the
max I could put on a 5250 w/room for a header and footer) rows on a page,
the scroll-bar is a generally accepted interface (the vertical one, not the
horizontal one), but at the same time I wouldn't load 1000 rows to a page
either. A couple hundred maybe. Performance comes into play here too, how
fast can you get the rows back to the user.

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan M. Andelin [mailto:nandelin@RELATIONAL-DATA.COM] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:51 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Design Patterns for Database Maintenance Screens


> From: "Scott Mildenberger" <Smildenber@Washcorp.com>
> My first thoughts are that I like the interface.  It appears more
> like a client side GUI program and less like HTML in that it
> has a fixed appearance.

Right.  The question being whether a "fixed" screen is more appropriate for
so many database maintenance tasks that are typical in a robust business
application?  Or is a scrolling page more appropriate?

> One thing I noticed is that if the browser window is sized too
> small you won't see all the data and their is no way to get to it
> other than making the browser window larger.

Right.  It sort of forces the GUI designer into targeting a minimum screen
resolution.

> As longer as the users were aware of needing their browser
> windows at least a certain size then it would be an issue.

Thank you for your comments, Scott.

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com



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