Re: Which is Optimal

Displaying your records sequentially or even distributing them among
several pages is useless in terms of usability.
Do you expect your users just to go through each page in hopes of finding
something to select?
You need to categorize the products and then allow the user to drill down
to the desired category of products and then let them select from a handful
of items or at least provide a search function so that the list of products
can be narrowed.

-Richard


At 02:49 PM 6/13/2003 +0530, you wrote:
>This is my scene.
>
>I have around 1, 000, 000 products in database.
>In my front end, user can select products by clicking a button.
>once user clicks the button i have to show him all the products from the
>database, as a popup.
>Now to show all 1, 000, 000 products, system hangs, responds after 5 minutes.
>
>How can i show all products without much overhead.
>will XML do any good.
>
>Vj