[wdmmg-discuss] feature request for data.wdmmg

Thu Nov 25 15:46:11 UTC 2010

I second Ext.js. We used it for a similar UI feature at BNYM. I didn't 
write that part myself, but the UI supports adding and removing columns, 
and sorting by any column, and also pagination.

When you change the sort order or the page number, it makes a new request 
to the server. This means you have to implement an API on the server that 
understands sort order and page number. You're already half-way there...

I haven't seen it do the filtering thing. However, we generally did not 
find it hard to make Ext do things that it can't do out of the box. Ext is 
well documented and on the whole well built. Taking the source code for 
one of their components and rewriting it to do something slightly 
different proved to be feasible.

I have not tried Ext's competitors.

 	Alistair

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Anna Powell-Smith wrote:

>> Ext.js is pretty good for grids:
>>
>> http://www.sencha.com/products/js/
>
> I think a key requirement for any plugin we use to display these large
> quantities of data is filterable columns.
>
> By this I mean drop-downs in the column headers, as in the Guardian's
> data explorer:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/government-spending-data/search?q=capita&order=desc&page=1
>
> It's very handy if you have more results than you can instantly scan.
> Any idea if ext can do this?
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