CCK field with unlimited entries, should it use pager? [#640856]

Hello,

I am worried of users entering unlimited values, and the list growing to hundreds of entries.

How would that affect page performance? Anyone tried implemeting a pager for a CCK field with unlimited entries?

How about a filter in such a case, so the user can easily see if an element is already added or not.

Cheers,
G

Comments

Comment #1

markus_petrux CreditAttribution: markus_petrux commented 24 November 2009 at 18:23

Category:	feature	» support
Status:	Active	» Fixed

Try searching the modules repository. IIRC, there's one that implements pagination for fields with multiple values.

PS: As a f.r. this is won't fix, or by design. Switching to s.r. and marking as fixed, so the issue is still visible in the queue.

Comment #2

giorgio79 CreditAttribution: giorgio79 commented 24 November 2009 at 19:49

Thanks Markus, there is one for display.

I was thinking though of the edit form, on data entry.

Comment #3

markus_petrux CreditAttribution: markus_petrux commented 24 November 2009 at 21:53

Oh, too bad. For some reason I recorded in my mind it also covered the form.

Well, this is non-trivial stuff. Besides someone writing the proper patch to cck, it would need a lot of testing. If you wish to work on that, I would suggest doing so on a separate contrib module, which is a possible approach to this feature.

No one maintaing CCK has the time to spend on reviewing such big patches at this stage. Time for new/big features would be better spent on Fields for D7, I think.