Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 7 · Binding data to the page
Sorting, filtering and searching
Lesson 74 of 176 · 3 min
Doing it IN THE BROWSER or ASKING THE SERVICE to do it. The threshold where the answer changes, and IT IS LOWER THAN PEOPLE EXPECT. Sorting and filtering a table is one line either way, and which side does it decides whether the page is correct at a thousand rows. IN THE BROWSER IS INSTANT AND WORKS ON WHAT THE BROWSER HAS. That is the whole rule, and everything follows from it: if the page holds all the rows, browser-side sorting is correct and immediate. If the page holds a page of them — Module 6 Lesson 6 — then sorting sorts twenty-five rows out of two thousand and presents the result as though it were the top twenty-five. WHICH IS THE FAILURE, AND IT IS A LIE RATHER THAN A LIMITATION. A user sorts by amount descending, sees the largest value on screen, and reasonably concludes it is the…
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In this module: Module 7 · Binding data to the page
- 1Binding, and what the framework does for you
- 2Tables and lists
- 3Forms and two-way binding
- 4Formatting: dates, numbers and currency
- 5Arabic and right-to-leftFree preview
- 6Conditional display
- 7Sorting, filtering and searching
- 8Empty, loading and error states
- 9What breaks: three binding failures
- 10Lab briefing · One screen, every state