Referencing a Form field is very, very slow

[mgaussie]

I use border spinners a lot for this and just use dynamic display (show) when data state is executing.

[TomD]

@Antony

the entire display has to be re-created when that screen is re-visited, resulting in a delay each time you go to that screen with the same dataset

That’s an interesting point. I think I have noticed this on some pages, but it hadn’t occurred to me that conditional regions was the issue. I shall investigate - thanks! I wonder if this is an inevitable side-effect of conditional regions or if it’s something which could be improved/resolved.

[Antony]

@TomD

I wonder if this is an inevitable side-effect of conditional regions or if it’s something which could be improved/resolved.

I think it is how conditional regions work versus show-hide… so if you don’t want that effect, I guess you use show-hide!

[Antony]

@mgaussie

I use border spinners a lot for this and just use dynamic display (show) when data state is executing.

But in this case there is nothing “executing”… the server connect takes just 100ms, and then it takes 1-2 seconds for the client side to display the data!

[mgaussie]

I think there are other options in status you can use that align to what is happening on the client side when you review timing. Eg downloading - but I’m just jumping in on the end of this post. May not be helpful.

[UKRiggers]

@Antony

and then it takes 1-2 seconds for the client side to display the data!

I’ve asked the question before… Is there any way of being notified when everything has finished displaying.