Abstract: MES records are displayed in a grid in a MES client screen. The MES records to be displayed are a set of records resulting from a query to a database by the MES client, and the record set is displayed via a number of grid pages. Each grid page displays a corresponding record subset and each grid page can be selected for display on the screen by selecting given grid pager navigation commands. First, the MES client queries the database to retrieve a first subset of MES records. The first retrieved MES record subset is displayed while the database is queried to count the exact total count of records of the record set to obtain a total exact record count value. Then the resulting total value is displayed on the screen, and grid pager navigation commands are displayed, enabling user selection for another grid page of another corresponding record subset.

Abstract: A method and a system customize a user-interface for a page-screen of an MES software application. Within an MES application a page-screen contains a configurable graphic control that contains a custom area customizable via a plug-in. A graphic configuration tool for enabling the configuration of the configurable graphic control is provided. At engineering time a configurable plug-in is provided, wherein its software code contains an additional configurable graphic control containing its custom area customizable via a nested plug-in. It is specified, through the configuration tool, the information of the configurable plug-in. The page-screen is explored so that, under the node representing the configurable graphic control, a tree is presented having a node representing the configurable plug-in having, underneath, a node representing the additional configurable graphic control.