[Phpmyadmin-devel] Print CSS and row count for views

[Isaac Bennetch]

On 5/31/15 11:09 AM, Madhura Jayaratne wrote:
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> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Isaac Bennetch <bennetch at gmail.com
> <mailto:bennetch at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
> 
>     Deven has done nice work on the print view[0] pull request but we've hit
>     a bit of a grey area with regards to what to do with a view count. In
>     the database structure page, in the standard "screen-based interface" we
>     provide an approximate row count for a view and the user can click on
>     the row count to get an exact number.
> 
>     With print view, we could handle this in a couple of ways, each of which
>     has a tradeoff. I think these are the two that I find most appealing.
> 
>     1) We could only provide an approximate count. This is programmatically
>     easiest and provides instant results, but might frustrate some users.
> 
>     2) We could provide an exact count, computed when the user presses the
>     print button. We should probably display a dialog during the counting
>     such as "Getting an exact count for views, the print dialog will appear
>     once the MySQL server is done counting." A shortcoming is that the count
>     would only be triggered by the "Print View" link, not when they use
>     their print function of the browser. Users with many complex views may
>     not care about an exact count and may want a quick print dialog, so we
>     might need to provide yet another configuration directive about this.
> 
>     How does the rest of the team feel about this?
> 
>     0 - https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/pull/1708
> 
> 
> I am fine with the first option. If a user wants to get the real counts,
> he/she can click on the links and then go for the print option, right?

That's a good point, then we're not making the user wait and if they
want an exact count, they can get it themselves.

> Apart from this, may be we need a way to fetch real counts for all the
> views at once (for example, making total count clickable)

This is an interesting suggestion.

Thanks for the feedback!

> -- 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> Madhura Jayaratne
> 
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