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    Multiple Smaller Apps or 1 big app?

    I am currently in planning stages of several projects. These projects are somewhat distinct but will be utilized by the same group of users. Am I better off to plan 1 big app (maybe 250 pages) or as many as 5 smaller apps with anywhere from 25 to 75 pages? If using one big app would it be best to create a different tabbed ui for each project and then use navigation to get there or just one big tabbed ui and then utilize security to limit what everybody sees?
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    Re: Multiple Smaller Apps or 1 big app?

    Hi Curt,
    I would use a single application, design it carefully taking into consideration the commonality of the features, then you can have your menu options in the TabbedUI controlled by the security groups, just try to get the security groups to a minimum if you can so it does not become a nightmare to setup, that is part of the design first, code later.
    Edhy Rijo
    Progytech     (Computer Consultants)
    The makers of CardTracking.Net
    www.progytech.com

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      Re: Multiple Smaller Apps or 1 big app?

      I had this experience with a large app. My first online application weighed in at 1.5mb, not huge, but large enough so that when the user clicked submit it had to push so much data that it gave the appearance of being hung and the user would close the browser before the submit had finished.
      I broke my app into 11 pages and each one zips through nice and fast.
      Rapid Development, Training, Support
      http://data2web.network
      903-740-2549

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        Re: Multiple Smaller Apps or 1 big app?

        I have a similar situation and I handled it the way Progytech is suggesting. However, I had the opposite of what he cautioned with groups. I wish I would have created a few extra at the beginning. I think that precisely figuring out the proper number of security groups in the beginning is worth the time. I believe having an extra group is better than being one short though. It stinks to have to add one and go through every permission you've ever set.

        In short, I like the tabbed ui method and only showing what the current user needs to see via group permissions.

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          Re: Multiple Smaller Apps or 1 big app?

          If you have tons of buttons on your tabbed_ui you can allow the user to first pick an app after the login and then redirect to a particular tabbed_ui.

          You can also create a pagelayout w. buttons to open tabs. Make the pagelayout be the tabbed_ui's homepage. The possibilities are endless.

          It's really a question of personal preference.
          Peter
          AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

           [email protected]
          https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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            Re: Multiple Smaller Apps or 1 big app?

            Thanks for the input, will really help in the planning process.

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              Re: Multiple Smaller Apps or 1 big app?

              As per Peter, but I would recommend using a dialog component instead of a pagelayout - added flexibility and functionality.

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                Re: Multiple Smaller Apps or 1 big app?

                Curt,

                250 pages is not really that many. I have a client with more than twice that many. He does it all in one tabbedUI (it complies to more than 30,000 lines of code) but is still very fast. He puts buttons on the main page to move from function to function like this:
                Capture.PNG

                Personally, I prefer a few tabbedUI to keep the users organized, but keep it to 2 or 3. You can put navigation links in the header of the TabbedUI. It is busy, but it save your working space, like this:
                Capture1.PNG

                Regardless of what you choose, the more important issue is setting up a good naming convention so you can quickly find what you are looking for in a list of 500 pages and components. Steve Wood has a good write-up at AlphaToGo.com
                Pat Bremkamp
                MindKicks Consulting

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