Sortable Tables

[nhandler]

Many of the sections under the Intranet display their results in tables. These tables can be quite large. It would be handy if you could click on column headings to quickly adjust how the table is sorted.

[reedlabotz]

Yeah, we can do that no problem.

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Nathan Handler notifications@github.comwrote:

Many of the sections under the Intranet display their results in tables. These tables can be quite large. It would be handy if you could click on column headings to quickly adjust how the table is sorted.

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[colegleason]

Rebecca would like this for resume book as well.

[reedlabotz]

I like that Rebecca's name now appears multiple times in the liquid github

[chorn21]

Who's Rebecca?

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Reed La Botz notifications@github.comwrote:

I like that Rebecca's name now appears multiple times in the liquid github

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Caroline Horn University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Undergraduate College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - Mathematics & Computer Science chorn21@gmail.com

[dylnuge]

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[chorn21]

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[dylnuge]

Sorry, hard to tell over the internet. I make sure people have their questions answered, even if they already know the answer. Better than leaving someone in the dark :)

[ace-n]

Is this something we are still interested in doing?

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[calvin-shirley]

It would be nice, yes.

[ace-n]

My pull request implementing this for the resume book was merged.

Are there any tables that need to be sort-ified (the most obvious candidate being the member database), or are we OK to close this issue?

[colegleason]

I think we want pretty much all tables to have this behavior, but that suggests we should just get some javascript library to handle it.

[ace-n]

^ Like I said in my previous comment, clientside pagination is my main contention point. AFAIK it is possible but would require massive data downloading.

I tried to find a more general Django library to take care of this, but I couldn't find anything that was definitively what we wanted. (I don't know how to write my own, though I can certainly take a look into it).

EDIT: I may be able to make a sortify() function that makes a table sortable in the view. Without writing a library, I don't know how to make it concise.

[colegleason]

I'm not sure it's significant enough to slow down the end-user. Maybe I'm wrong though.

[brendanjryan]

@ace-n what is preventing you from loading the first page of results and then lazy-loading in the rest?

[ace-n]

That could work. But if you are going to sort things clientside, you either need a really clever algorithm (which I won't rule out) or all the data to sort. (Unless you are just going to AJAX sorted data from the server.)

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@ace-n https://github.com/ace-n what is preventing you from loading the first page of results and then lazy-loading in the rest?

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[colegleason]

Look, how much info is in our largest table? A few KB?

[ace-n]

I'm just concerned about scalabilty. =P

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Cole Gleason notifications@github.comwrote:

Look, how much info is in our largest table? A few KB?

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