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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