Large object in Express

Hi,

I am trying to handle a large object in Express - one that I want to

edit, display and search on, all within as few a screens as possible.

There is too much information to display it all on one simple form

screen. I have used a couple of folders containing the item

shown in the "top" window, but showing different subsets of the

fields. This works fine, except I can't search on any of the fields

in the Folders, which I need to do. Splitting the object off into

separate screens means that it doesn't look too elegant, and I cant

search on any combination of the objects fields - only what is

displayed on each screen.

Does anybody have any ideas on what is the "best" solution?

Thanks in advance

Derek Rendall

University of Otago

New Zealand

[863 byte] By [] at [2007-11-25 5:00:48]

# 1

Derek asked about editing large objects in Express :

As mentioned, you could use multiple windows (eg. Generate a number

of windows off the same Business object and have Command links to

each window), but searching becomes awkward. A better way might be

to group related fields into panels and add custom buttons to hide

and display different panels, ala Tab folders. This way all fields

are still part of the window and you should be able to search on

whatever fields are visible at the time. (Hey, I didn't say it would

be easy, just possible !)

Justin

Justin Levis

Hydro-Electric Commission

Hobart, Tas, Australia

at 2007-6-29 9:19:31 >

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