uPortal IRC Logs-2009-09-09

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Last updated: Sept 09, 2009Version comment
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[09:47:57 EDT(-0400)] <lennard> athena, have you ever used displayTag in a portlet?
[09:47:58 EDT(-0400)] <lennard> http://displaytag.sourceforge.net/1.2/index.html
[09:48:21 EDT(-0400)] <athena> no, i haven't used that one
[09:48:46 EDT(-0400)] <athena> i use the fluid pager for displaying tables most of the time now
[09:48:48 EDT(-0400)] <lennard> They claim a JSR 168 integration, and even mention that if your portal uses pluto integration should be simple... although I doubt the features I would be using would require it.
[09:49:03 EDT(-0400)] <athena> since that has javascript support for both sorting by column and paging through the result set
[09:49:25 EDT(-0400)] <lennard> does it automagically convert to csv, pdf, and excel as well?
[09:49:26 EDT(-0400)] <athena> i've never been much of a fan of view-side tags that print out their own HTML
[09:49:32 EDT(-0400)] <athena> no (smile)
[09:50:18 EDT(-0400)] <lennard> that is the only reason I'm looking at this one. the client listed those as nice to haves... and this is a little admin reporting portlet on some of our community code.
[09:50:23 EDT(-0400)] <athena> gotcha
[09:50:27 EDT(-0400)] <athena> yeah that makes sense
[09:50:35 EDT(-0400)] <athena> i have used apache POI to produce excel before
[09:50:49 EDT(-0400)] <athena> i'd probably wind up handling it all separately just to provide the most control over the user experience
[09:51:01 EDT(-0400)] * lennard nods
[09:51:03 EDT(-0400)] <athena> write separate portlet-side display code and a separate data exporter, i mean
[09:51:19 EDT(-0400)] <athena> but i do know that tag library gets used and people seem to like it
[09:51:34 EDT(-0400)] <lennard> well... I was given about 12 hours to get this thing written, so am looking for shortcuts
[09:51:42 EDT(-0400)] <athena> gotcha
[09:51:51 EDT(-0400)] <athena> that sounds like a really good shortcut then (smile)
[09:52:04 EDT(-0400)] <lennard> I don't do a lot of frontend type stuff, so am sure that will take a lot longer for me to do than it would you.
[09:52:35 EDT(-0400)] <athena> yeah, i would imagine this would take a lot less ramp-up time, and having the data export is of course really nice
[09:52:56 EDT(-0400)] <athena> you may want to check the exported excel against ms office 2007 just to make sure it's compatible
[09:53:08 EDT(-0400)] <athena> though it seems like most stuff still loads up in the newer version ok
[09:53:22 EDT(-0400)] <lennard> will do, thanks!
[09:53:32 EDT(-0400)] <athena> yep (smile)
[09:53:36 EDT(-0400)] <athena> so is this all server-side?
[09:53:59 EDT(-0400)] <lennard> this tag you mean?
[09:54:04 EDT(-0400)] <lennard> not sure if it is all server side
[09:54:19 EDT(-0400)] <lennard> from what I have seen in the documentation, it likely is not totally server side.
[09:54:38 EDT(-0400)] <athena> if some of it is client-side it might be worth finding out what javascript library they're using
[09:54:48 EDT(-0400)] <athena> just to make sure you won't be introducing conflicts
[09:54:58 EDT(-0400)] <lennard> yeah... if it messes with jquery, will have to rule it out
[09:55:20 EDT(-0400)] <athena> or make sure to clean up after it, or something
[09:55:21 EDT(-0400)] <athena> i
[09:55:30 EDT(-0400)] <athena> mean in theory it could be quite possible to get it all to work together
[09:56:05 EDT(-0400)] <athena> though if they explicitly mention portlet support, maybe most of it's backend
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