When your page has no results, what do you show?
I am paginating a data table and have different views in my application where each view has its own rows. Some views may have data, some may not
Showing 1-0 of 0 Page 1 of 0
is what I am showing on a page with no rows
If I had some rows to display, it would be
Showing 1-30 of 45 Page 1 of 1
What do I display in the empty case?
Some possibilities
- Showing 0-0 of 0 Page 1 of 1
- Showing 0-1 of 1 Page 1 of 1
What do I do here
tables data-tables pagination
asked 18 hours ago
PirateAppPirateApp
34129
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I am paginating a data table and have different views in my application where each view has its own rows. Some views may have data, some may not
Showing 1-0 of 0 Page 1 of 0
is what I am showing on a page with no rows
If I had some rows to display, it would be
Showing 1-30 of 45 Page 1 of 1
What do I display in the empty case?
Some possibilities
- Showing 0-0 of 0 Page 1 of 1
- Showing 0-1 of 1 Page 1 of 1
What do I do here
tables data-tables pagination
asked 18 hours ago
PirateAppPirateApp
34129
1
Sounds terrible, what's the reason for data not being available? Is this triggered by a user search?
– DarrylGodden
16 hours ago
@DarrylGodden i have financial data coming in from external APIs shown in the same table but divided as views, it takes me some time to get the data up and running on some views sometimes so if you load the website initially when it just boots it wont have anything to show, there is pagination but some views may have data some may not
– PirateApp
13 hours ago
2
@PirateApp "It takes some time"? So the area isn't "nothing matches your criteria" it's "still loading"?
– Kamil Drakari
10 hours ago
There's some answers below, one of which seems quite popular, my view would be to look at refining the queries that pull in the data and the potential to make efficiencies at that end, alongside the queries and reduce the possibility that the user could end up with no data to show.
– DarrylGodden
9 hours ago
add a comment |
I am paginating a data table and have different views in my application where each view has its own rows. Some views may have data, some may not
Showing 1-0 of 0 Page 1 of 0
is what I am showing on a page with no rows
If I had some rows to display, it would be
Showing 1-30 of 45 Page 1 of 1
What do I display in the empty case?
Some possibilities
- Showing 0-0 of 0 Page 1 of 1
- Showing 0-1 of 1 Page 1 of 1
What do I do here
tables data-tables pagination
asked 18 hours ago
PirateAppPirateApp
34129
I am paginating a data table and have different views in my application where each view has its own rows. Some views may have data, some may not
Showing 1-0 of 0 Page 1 of 0
is what I am showing on a page with no rows
If I had some rows to display, it would be
Showing 1-30 of 45 Page 1 of 1
What do I display in the empty case?
Some possibilities
- Showing 0-0 of 0 Page 1 of 1
- Showing 0-1 of 1 Page 1 of 1
What do I do here
tables data-tables pagination
tables data-tables pagination
asked 18 hours ago
PirateAppPirateApp
34129
asked 18 hours ago
PirateAppPirateApp
34129
asked 18 hours ago
PirateAppPirateApp
34129
asked 18 hours ago
PirateAppPirateApp
34129
asked 18 hours ago
PirateAppPirateApp
34129
34129
1
Sounds terrible, what's the reason for data not being available? Is this triggered by a user search?
– DarrylGodden
16 hours ago
@DarrylGodden i have financial data coming in from external APIs shown in the same table but divided as views, it takes me some time to get the data up and running on some views sometimes so if you load the website initially when it just boots it wont have anything to show, there is pagination but some views may have data some may not
– PirateApp
13 hours ago
2
@PirateApp "It takes some time"? So the area isn't "nothing matches your criteria" it's "still loading"?
– Kamil Drakari
10 hours ago
There's some answers below, one of which seems quite popular, my view would be to look at refining the queries that pull in the data and the potential to make efficiencies at that end, alongside the queries and reduce the possibility that the user could end up with no data to show.
– DarrylGodden
9 hours ago
add a comment |
1
Sounds terrible, what's the reason for data not being available? Is this triggered by a user search?
– DarrylGodden
16 hours ago
@DarrylGodden i have financial data coming in from external APIs shown in the same table but divided as views, it takes me some time to get the data up and running on some views sometimes so if you load the website initially when it just boots it wont have anything to show, there is pagination but some views may have data some may not
– PirateApp
13 hours ago
2
@PirateApp "It takes some time"? So the area isn't "nothing matches your criteria" it's "still loading"?
– Kamil Drakari
10 hours ago
There's some answers below, one of which seems quite popular, my view would be to look at refining the queries that pull in the data and the potential to make efficiencies at that end, alongside the queries and reduce the possibility that the user could end up with no data to show.
– DarrylGodden
9 hours ago
1
1
Sounds terrible, what's the reason for data not being available? Is this triggered by a user search?
– DarrylGodden
16 hours ago
Sounds terrible, what's the reason for data not being available? Is this triggered by a user search?
– DarrylGodden
16 hours ago
@DarrylGodden i have financial data coming in from external APIs shown in the same table but divided as views, it takes me some time to get the data up and running on some views sometimes so if you load the website initially when it just boots it wont have anything to show, there is pagination but some views may have data some may not
– PirateApp
13 hours ago
@DarrylGodden i have financial data coming in from external APIs shown in the same table but divided as views, it takes me some time to get the data up and running on some views sometimes so if you load the website initially when it just boots it wont have anything to show, there is pagination but some views may have data some may not
– PirateApp
13 hours ago
2
2
@PirateApp "It takes some time"? So the area isn't "nothing matches your criteria" it's "still loading"?
– Kamil Drakari
10 hours ago
@PirateApp "It takes some time"? So the area isn't "nothing matches your criteria" it's "still loading"?
– Kamil Drakari
10 hours ago
There's some answers below, one of which seems quite popular, my view would be to look at refining the queries that pull in the data and the potential to make efficiencies at that end, alongside the queries and reduce the possibility that the user could end up with no data to show.
– DarrylGodden
9 hours ago
There's some answers below, one of which seems quite popular, my view would be to look at refining the queries that pull in the data and the potential to make efficiencies at that end, alongside the queries and reduce the possibility that the user could end up with no data to show.
– DarrylGodden
9 hours ago
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For this situation you can use an empty state which can be just text or a graphic with text and an action button.
Example of an empty state from Product Hunt:
Good empty states will give the users an action button which can push them in the right direction. A button with something like "Refine your search" might work in this case.
It doesn't make sense to show any pagination because there are no results let alone one or even half a page of results.
answered 17 hours ago
RobbyReindeerRobbyReindeer
4,7872244
@Zasul yeah sorry, it took me a bit of time to find the correct article and image! By the time I'd finished my post you already posted.
– RobbyReindeer
13 hours ago
Sorry ... I noticed its a 2 - 3 minutes window :D, its a common sense answer.
– Zasul
13 hours ago
@Zasul, I upvoted you if that's any consolation :D
– RobbyReindeer
12 hours ago
2
Please only show that panel when you actually did search. I know too many unreliable web apps, which show "no results" when there was a timeout or even while performing the actual search.
– Christian Strempfer
7 hours ago
add a comment |
I would hide Showing "0 results from 0 results".
Instead I would add in place a Blank State image with a button for the user to add data. ( If the user adds the data ).
Displaying a pagination where there are no results is purely an artefact of a not so good UX.
Example : 
answered 17 hours ago
ZasulZasul
810213
add a comment |
For completeness, there's a canonical bad solution to this that is extremely common: quietly (maybe even silently) generalize the user's query until the set of results is non-empty, and show them results that they weren't looking for. Sometimes this takes the form of guessing at other searches they might have meant, Other times it's just putting advertisements in their face.
Obviously (or maybe not so obviously, since it's so common), don't do this.
answered 8 hours ago
R..R..
1,50298
3
Note: Google also includes a button for "Search instead for [X]," which is a requirement for this feature to be acceptable.
– James G.
8 hours ago
4
@JamesG.: It also does that when you didn't misspell your query but it's an uncommon or foreign word. It also shows you high-rank results that omit one or more of your search terms (sometimes quietly mentioning that under the result) or that only include words it thinks are synonyms for one of your search terms (which possibly are not synonyms in the context you were looking for). All of this is extremely bad ux.
– R..
7 hours ago
3
Netflix does this when they don't have the movie you were searching for--they instead show you movies that are similar to the one you were actually trying to find. I'm undecided as to whether or not I like this route.
– Ectropy
7 hours ago
6
@Ectropy: It would be so much better if they showed you the movie that you were obviously searching for, acknowledging that it exists but they don't have streaming rights to it, and indicated whether you could get it with their DVDs-by-mail service (which still exists, right?), and only then offered to show you similar movies you might like.
– R..
7 hours ago
2
@BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft: It's not always fuzzy-searching. Google seems to actively omit some of your search terms when it thinks you'll get "better" results without them, rather than using any distance function. But conceptually, fuzzy searching is also a generalization of the user's query, even if the mechanism is to generalize by admitting low-distance results.
– R..
4 hours ago
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For this situation you can use an empty state which can be just text or a graphic with text and an action button.
Example of an empty state from Product Hunt:
Good empty states will give the users an action button which can push them in the right direction. A button with something like "Refine your search" might work in this case.
It doesn't make sense to show any pagination because there are no results let alone one or even half a page of results.
answered 17 hours ago
RobbyReindeerRobbyReindeer
4,7872244
@Zasul yeah sorry, it took me a bit of time to find the correct article and image! By the time I'd finished my post you already posted.
– RobbyReindeer
13 hours ago
Sorry ... I noticed its a 2 - 3 minutes window :D, its a common sense answer.
– Zasul
13 hours ago
@Zasul, I upvoted you if that's any consolation :D
– RobbyReindeer
12 hours ago
2
Please only show that panel when you actually did search. I know too many unreliable web apps, which show "no results" when there was a timeout or even while performing the actual search.
– Christian Strempfer
7 hours ago
add a comment |
For this situation you can use an empty state which can be just text or a graphic with text and an action button.
Example of an empty state from Product Hunt:
Good empty states will give the users an action button which can push them in the right direction. A button with something like "Refine your search" might work in this case.
It doesn't make sense to show any pagination because there are no results let alone one or even half a page of results.
answered 17 hours ago
RobbyReindeerRobbyReindeer
4,7872244
@Zasul yeah sorry, it took me a bit of time to find the correct article and image! By the time I'd finished my post you already posted.
– RobbyReindeer
13 hours ago
Sorry ... I noticed its a 2 - 3 minutes window :D, its a common sense answer.
– Zasul
13 hours ago
@Zasul, I upvoted you if that's any consolation :D
– RobbyReindeer
12 hours ago
2
Please only show that panel when you actually did search. I know too many unreliable web apps, which show "no results" when there was a timeout or even while performing the actual search.
– Christian Strempfer
7 hours ago
add a comment |
For this situation you can use an empty state which can be just text or a graphic with text and an action button.
Example of an empty state from Product Hunt:
Good empty states will give the users an action button which can push them in the right direction. A button with something like "Refine your search" might work in this case.
It doesn't make sense to show any pagination because there are no results let alone one or even half a page of results.
answered 17 hours ago
RobbyReindeerRobbyReindeer
4,7872244
For this situation you can use an empty state which can be just text or a graphic with text and an action button.
Example of an empty state from Product Hunt:
Good empty states will give the users an action button which can push them in the right direction. A button with something like "Refine your search" might work in this case.
It doesn't make sense to show any pagination because there are no results let alone one or even half a page of results.
answered 17 hours ago
RobbyReindeerRobbyReindeer
4,7872244
edited 16 hours ago
answered 17 hours ago
RobbyReindeerRobbyReindeer
4,7872244
answered 17 hours ago
RobbyReindeerRobbyReindeer
4,7872244
answered 17 hours ago
RobbyReindeerRobbyReindeer
4,7872244
4,7872244
@Zasul yeah sorry, it took me a bit of time to find the correct article and image! By the time I'd finished my post you already posted.
– RobbyReindeer
13 hours ago
Sorry ... I noticed its a 2 - 3 minutes window :D, its a common sense answer.
– Zasul
13 hours ago
@Zasul, I upvoted you if that's any consolation :D
– RobbyReindeer
12 hours ago
2
Please only show that panel when you actually did search. I know too many unreliable web apps, which show "no results" when there was a timeout or even while performing the actual search.
– Christian Strempfer
7 hours ago
add a comment |
@Zasul yeah sorry, it took me a bit of time to find the correct article and image! By the time I'd finished my post you already posted.
– RobbyReindeer
13 hours ago
Sorry ... I noticed its a 2 - 3 minutes window :D, its a common sense answer.
– Zasul
13 hours ago
@Zasul, I upvoted you if that's any consolation :D
– RobbyReindeer
12 hours ago
2
Please only show that panel when you actually did search. I know too many unreliable web apps, which show "no results" when there was a timeout or even while performing the actual search.
– Christian Strempfer
7 hours ago
@Zasul yeah sorry, it took me a bit of time to find the correct article and image! By the time I'd finished my post you already posted.
– RobbyReindeer
13 hours ago
@Zasul yeah sorry, it took me a bit of time to find the correct article and image! By the time I'd finished my post you already posted.
– RobbyReindeer
13 hours ago
Sorry ... I noticed it
s a 2 - 3 minutes window :D, its a common sense answer.– Zasul
13 hours ago
Sorry ... I noticed it
s a 2 - 3 minutes window :D, its a common sense answer.– Zasul
13 hours ago
@Zasul, I upvoted you if that's any consolation :D
– RobbyReindeer
12 hours ago
@Zasul, I upvoted you if that's any consolation :D
– RobbyReindeer
12 hours ago
2
2
Please only show that panel when you actually did search. I know too many unreliable web apps, which show "no results" when there was a timeout or even while performing the actual search.
– Christian Strempfer
7 hours ago
Please only show that panel when you actually did search. I know too many unreliable web apps, which show "no results" when there was a timeout or even while performing the actual search.
– Christian Strempfer
7 hours ago
add a comment |
I would hide Showing "0 results from 0 results".
Instead I would add in place a Blank State image with a button for the user to add data. ( If the user adds the data ).
Displaying a pagination where there are no results is purely an artefact of a not so good UX.
Example :
answered 17 hours ago
ZasulZasul
810213
add a comment |
I would hide Showing "0 results from 0 results".
Instead I would add in place a Blank State image with a button for the user to add data. ( If the user adds the data ).
Displaying a pagination where there are no results is purely an artefact of a not so good UX.
Example :
answered 17 hours ago
ZasulZasul
810213
add a comment |
I would hide Showing "0 results from 0 results".
Instead I would add in place a Blank State image with a button for the user to add data. ( If the user adds the data ).
Displaying a pagination where there are no results is purely an artefact of a not so good UX.
Example :
answered 17 hours ago
ZasulZasul
810213
I would hide Showing "0 results from 0 results".
Instead I would add in place a Blank State image with a button for the user to add data. ( If the user adds the data ).
Displaying a pagination where there are no results is purely an artefact of a not so good UX.
Example :
answered 17 hours ago
ZasulZasul
810213
answered 17 hours ago
ZasulZasul
810213
answered 17 hours ago
ZasulZasul
810213
answered 17 hours ago
ZasulZasul
810213
810213
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add a comment |
For completeness, there's a canonical bad solution to this that is extremely common: quietly (maybe even silently) generalize the user's query until the set of results is non-empty, and show them results that they weren't looking for. Sometimes this takes the form of guessing at other searches they might have meant, Other times it's just putting advertisements in their face.
Obviously (or maybe not so obviously, since it's so common), don't do this.
answered 8 hours ago
R..R..
1,50298
3
Note: Google also includes a button for "Search instead for [X]," which is a requirement for this feature to be acceptable.
– James G.
8 hours ago
4
@JamesG.: It also does that when you didn't misspell your query but it's an uncommon or foreign word. It also shows you high-rank results that omit one or more of your search terms (sometimes quietly mentioning that under the result) or that only include words it thinks are synonyms for one of your search terms (which possibly are not synonyms in the context you were looking for). All of this is extremely bad ux.
– R..
7 hours ago
3
Netflix does this when they don't have the movie you were searching for--they instead show you movies that are similar to the one you were actually trying to find. I'm undecided as to whether or not I like this route.
– Ectropy
7 hours ago
6
@Ectropy: It would be so much better if they showed you the movie that you were obviously searching for, acknowledging that it exists but they don't have streaming rights to it, and indicated whether you could get it with their DVDs-by-mail service (which still exists, right?), and only then offered to show you similar movies you might like.
– R..
7 hours ago
2
@BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft: It's not always fuzzy-searching. Google seems to actively omit some of your search terms when it thinks you'll get "better" results without them, rather than using any distance function. But conceptually, fuzzy searching is also a generalization of the user's query, even if the mechanism is to generalize by admitting low-distance results.
– R..
4 hours ago
|
show 2 more comments
For completeness, there's a canonical bad solution to this that is extremely common: quietly (maybe even silently) generalize the user's query until the set of results is non-empty, and show them results that they weren't looking for. Sometimes this takes the form of guessing at other searches they might have meant, Other times it's just putting advertisements in their face.
Obviously (or maybe not so obviously, since it's so common), don't do this.
answered 8 hours ago
R..R..
1,50298
3
Note: Google also includes a button for "Search instead for [X]," which is a requirement for this feature to be acceptable.
– James G.
8 hours ago
4
@JamesG.: It also does that when you didn't misspell your query but it's an uncommon or foreign word. It also shows you high-rank results that omit one or more of your search terms (sometimes quietly mentioning that under the result) or that only include words it thinks are synonyms for one of your search terms (which possibly are not synonyms in the context you were looking for). All of this is extremely bad ux.
– R..
7 hours ago
3
Netflix does this when they don't have the movie you were searching for--they instead show you movies that are similar to the one you were actually trying to find. I'm undecided as to whether or not I like this route.
– Ectropy
7 hours ago
6
@Ectropy: It would be so much better if they showed you the movie that you were obviously searching for, acknowledging that it exists but they don't have streaming rights to it, and indicated whether you could get it with their DVDs-by-mail service (which still exists, right?), and only then offered to show you similar movies you might like.
– R..
7 hours ago
2
@BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft: It's not always fuzzy-searching. Google seems to actively omit some of your search terms when it thinks you'll get "better" results without them, rather than using any distance function. But conceptually, fuzzy searching is also a generalization of the user's query, even if the mechanism is to generalize by admitting low-distance results.
– R..
4 hours ago
|
show 2 more comments
For completeness, there's a canonical bad solution to this that is extremely common: quietly (maybe even silently) generalize the user's query until the set of results is non-empty, and show them results that they weren't looking for. Sometimes this takes the form of guessing at other searches they might have meant, Other times it's just putting advertisements in their face.
Obviously (or maybe not so obviously, since it's so common), don't do this.
answered 8 hours ago
R..R..
1,50298
For completeness, there's a canonical bad solution to this that is extremely common: quietly (maybe even silently) generalize the user's query until the set of results is non-empty, and show them results that they weren't looking for. Sometimes this takes the form of guessing at other searches they might have meant, Other times it's just putting advertisements in their face.
Obviously (or maybe not so obviously, since it's so common), don't do this.
answered 8 hours ago
R..R..
1,50298
answered 8 hours ago
R..R..
1,50298
answered 8 hours ago
R..R..
1,50298
answered 8 hours ago
R..R..
1,50298
1,50298
3
Note: Google also includes a button for "Search instead for [X]," which is a requirement for this feature to be acceptable.
– James G.
8 hours ago
4
@JamesG.: It also does that when you didn't misspell your query but it's an uncommon or foreign word. It also shows you high-rank results that omit one or more of your search terms (sometimes quietly mentioning that under the result) or that only include words it thinks are synonyms for one of your search terms (which possibly are not synonyms in the context you were looking for). All of this is extremely bad ux.
– R..
7 hours ago
3
Netflix does this when they don't have the movie you were searching for--they instead show you movies that are similar to the one you were actually trying to find. I'm undecided as to whether or not I like this route.
– Ectropy
7 hours ago
6
@Ectropy: It would be so much better if they showed you the movie that you were obviously searching for, acknowledging that it exists but they don't have streaming rights to it, and indicated whether you could get it with their DVDs-by-mail service (which still exists, right?), and only then offered to show you similar movies you might like.
– R..
7 hours ago
2
@BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft: It's not always fuzzy-searching. Google seems to actively omit some of your search terms when it thinks you'll get "better" results without them, rather than using any distance function. But conceptually, fuzzy searching is also a generalization of the user's query, even if the mechanism is to generalize by admitting low-distance results.
– R..
4 hours ago
|
show 2 more comments
3
Note: Google also includes a button for "Search instead for [X]," which is a requirement for this feature to be acceptable.
– James G.
8 hours ago
4
@JamesG.: It also does that when you didn't misspell your query but it's an uncommon or foreign word. It also shows you high-rank results that omit one or more of your search terms (sometimes quietly mentioning that under the result) or that only include words it thinks are synonyms for one of your search terms (which possibly are not synonyms in the context you were looking for). All of this is extremely bad ux.
– R..
7 hours ago
3
Netflix does this when they don't have the movie you were searching for--they instead show you movies that are similar to the one you were actually trying to find. I'm undecided as to whether or not I like this route.
– Ectropy
7 hours ago
6
@Ectropy: It would be so much better if they showed you the movie that you were obviously searching for, acknowledging that it exists but they don't have streaming rights to it, and indicated whether you could get it with their DVDs-by-mail service (which still exists, right?), and only then offered to show you similar movies you might like.
– R..
7 hours ago
2
@BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft: It's not always fuzzy-searching. Google seems to actively omit some of your search terms when it thinks you'll get "better" results without them, rather than using any distance function. But conceptually, fuzzy searching is also a generalization of the user's query, even if the mechanism is to generalize by admitting low-distance results.
– R..
4 hours ago
3
3
Note: Google also includes a button for "Search instead for [X]," which is a requirement for this feature to be acceptable.
– James G.
8 hours ago
Note: Google also includes a button for "Search instead for [X]," which is a requirement for this feature to be acceptable.
– James G.
8 hours ago
4
4
@JamesG.: It also does that when you didn't misspell your query but it's an uncommon or foreign word. It also shows you high-rank results that omit one or more of your search terms (sometimes quietly mentioning that under the result) or that only include words it thinks are synonyms for one of your search terms (which possibly are not synonyms in the context you were looking for). All of this is extremely bad ux.
– R..
7 hours ago
@JamesG.: It also does that when you didn't misspell your query but it's an uncommon or foreign word. It also shows you high-rank results that omit one or more of your search terms (sometimes quietly mentioning that under the result) or that only include words it thinks are synonyms for one of your search terms (which possibly are not synonyms in the context you were looking for). All of this is extremely bad ux.
– R..
7 hours ago
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Netflix does this when they don't have the movie you were searching for--they instead show you movies that are similar to the one you were actually trying to find. I'm undecided as to whether or not I like this route.
– Ectropy
7 hours ago
Netflix does this when they don't have the movie you were searching for--they instead show you movies that are similar to the one you were actually trying to find. I'm undecided as to whether or not I like this route.
– Ectropy
7 hours ago
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@Ectropy: It would be so much better if they showed you the movie that you were obviously searching for, acknowledging that it exists but they don't have streaming rights to it, and indicated whether you could get it with their DVDs-by-mail service (which still exists, right?), and only then offered to show you similar movies you might like.
– R..
7 hours ago
@Ectropy: It would be so much better if they showed you the movie that you were obviously searching for, acknowledging that it exists but they don't have streaming rights to it, and indicated whether you could get it with their DVDs-by-mail service (which still exists, right?), and only then offered to show you similar movies you might like.
– R..
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@BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft: It's not always fuzzy-searching. Google seems to actively omit some of your search terms when it thinks you'll get "better" results without them, rather than using any distance function. But conceptually, fuzzy searching is also a generalization of the user's query, even if the mechanism is to generalize by admitting low-distance results.
– R..
4 hours ago
@BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft: It's not always fuzzy-searching. Google seems to actively omit some of your search terms when it thinks you'll get "better" results without them, rather than using any distance function. But conceptually, fuzzy searching is also a generalization of the user's query, even if the mechanism is to generalize by admitting low-distance results.
– R..
4 hours ago
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Sounds terrible, what's the reason for data not being available? Is this triggered by a user search?
– DarrylGodden
16 hours ago
@DarrylGodden i have financial data coming in from external APIs shown in the same table but divided as views, it takes me some time to get the data up and running on some views sometimes so if you load the website initially when it just boots it wont have anything to show, there is pagination but some views may have data some may not
– PirateApp
13 hours ago
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@PirateApp "It takes some time"? So the area isn't "nothing matches your criteria" it's "still loading"?
– Kamil Drakari
10 hours ago
There's some answers below, one of which seems quite popular, my view would be to look at refining the queries that pull in the data and the potential to make efficiencies at that end, alongside the queries and reduce the possibility that the user could end up with no data to show.
– DarrylGodden
9 hours ago