Architecture :: Use Separate Pages Or Make One With Multiple Views?
Nov 15, 2010
I'm working on a webforms aspx app (not MVC) and I'm not sure if I should just create separate pages or somehow make multiple views on the same aspx page for the following scenario: Basically, I need to give the user the option to view a set of data a few different ways (essentially different group by's from a data perspective)... the data is always the same, its just a matter of how to arrange on the page...
each way I need to present the data will essentially consist of 2 repeaters, one nested inside the other. The outer repeater will display a nice header section with the nested repeater showing the list of items under that heading. view by book title (title is outer repeater, with the book list being the nested repeater, yes, multiple books with same title for this example - the app has nothing to do with books, this is just to illustrate)
Book Title: A Good Story
Author - Publisher - ISBN
Dan Johnson - Smith Publishing - kjdkjfd99898989
Susan Day - Smith Publishing - aa777fd99ff
Greg Greger - Corp XYZ - amkj897hgrt554
Book Title: Another Good Story
Author - Publisher - ISBN
Frank Franky - Corp XYZ - kj3kjfd9d9980
Jason Cambel - Smith Publishing - 7g7fddddttt
Jill Breker - Smith Publishing - d9ddt523321
Or, view books by publisher (here the publisher would be the outer repeater and the list, with different fields compared to first view, is the nested repeater.
Publisher: Smith Publishing
Title - Author - ISBN
A Good Story - Dan Johnson - kjdkjfd99898989
A Good Story - Susan Day - aa777fd99ff
Another Good Story - Jason Cambel - 7g7fddddttt
Another Good Story - Jill Breker - d9ddt523321
Publisher: Corp XYZ
Title - Author - ISBN
A Good Story - Greg Greger - amkj897hgrt554
Another Good Story - Frank Franky - kj3kjfd9d9980
so what do I do here? Just making separate pages is simple and would work, but is there something else I should be considering? There will be 3 different views, so 3 pages total if I went that route. Something is making me think I should be doing this all within one aspx page? maybe just toggling the visible property of the repeater controls? but then I was thinking each of these repeater controls is databound, and I assume even if they are not visible they still incurred database hits to get the data, right? and that could be bad?
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