Customised search and displaying results

From: Roman_P <pruszkowskir_at_aecl.ca>
Date: 12 Nov 2001 06:26:09 -0800
Message-ID: <7a76da19.0111120626.138283e_at_posting.google.com>



ello All:

This is one of the requirements for a corporate phonebook search that I am currently working on:

"If the search does not return enough records to fill the user's display and the search has used last name as the search criteria, enough closely matching records to fill the screen will also be displayed, sorted by last name (half above the hits, half below). Records that matched the search criteria exactly will be prominently highlighted."

What it means:

Searching for last_name = 'Smith'

They want to see it on the screen in this fashion:

....... --so on, so forth, "enough to fill up a display" Smithers
Smithe

Smith  --highlighted
Smith  --highlighted
Smith  --highlighted
Smith  --highlighted
Smith  --highlighted

Smithson
Smithtsky
........ -- so on, so forth, "enough to fill up a display"

Is this doable with Oracle Forms 6i?
The client wants speed : there will be only one table with ~5000 records to search and required response time is 0.5s. I am affraid that this requirement can compromised it.

Could anyone help, please.

Thank you

Roman Received on Mon Nov 12 2001 - 15:26:09 CET

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