Encountering slow navigation to a card containing very large fields? Do this one simple trick.

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Apr 16 15:20:37 EDT 2022


David Glasgow wrote:

 > I have a card (A) with two fields in separate groups.  Field 1
 > contains many many thousands of lines of text which are filtered
 > for keywords and the results displayed in field 2 (which can also
 > be many thousands of lines).  The user can navigate to a separate
 > card (B) to view summary statistics and a bar chart.
 >
 > I found that worked fine, but navigating back from B to A always
 > took many seconds and looked like a hang.  The delay seemed to be
 > in some way proportional to the number of lines in field 1 and
 > field 2.

How many is "many many thousands of lines"?  10k? 100k? More?

Is the data displayed in list fields, or must the line wraps be calculated?

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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