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  • Allow Paging of Participant when count is greater than 100

    When you click on a collection protocol containing more than 100 participants,
    The page will list the first 100 participants, but there is no indication that there is more than 100, anywhere on that screen.
    There is no total count, or paging mechanism to browse through the participants.
    It simply stops listing at 100 participants, giving the false assumption that there is only total of 100.

    I’ve been told that this is designed this way for performance reasons, but I don’t think that is true.
    If for example, that each page of 100 participants take 0.5 seconds. Then every other page of 100 records should also be 0.5 seconds.
    So theoretically, I think there should not be a performance problem.

    On the other hand, I think there is a huge psychological benefit for end users, to be able to browse their hard earned participants.
    Being able to only see the first page of patients, is like opening a freezer and only see samples on the first shelf, even though the other shelves are full, but you cannot see it.

    Therefore, I would like to advocate that there should be a total count of participant on the top of the screen within each collection protocol, and a paging mechanism to browse through all of your participants.
    Thank you very much

    @petermo

    Beyond a certain number, we do not expect users to actually sift through each patient to see which one you are really looking for. Instead you would search for the record using the filters provided.

    We determined this number to be 100. Thats why beyond 100, the filters are shown automatically.

    Its similar to the joke that, if you want to hide a dead body, bury it in the 2nd page of a Google search. :slightly_smiling:

    ~Sri

    The difference here is, Google lets you know that there is a Page 2, while OpenSpecimen does not.
    Even a simple Total Count of Participants on top of page would help.
    Thanks

    @petermo

    Makes sense. Will be adding an info message at the top of the page.

    You can track the ticket here: https://openspecimen.atlassian.net/browse/OPSMN-3020

    I have made you the reporter.

    ~Sri