DFFS Rules Causing Major Slowdown SP2010 – IE8

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    • #8594
      Ryan Cornfoot
      Participant

      Hi, Im hoping someone can help.

      I have used DFFS on multiple 2007 sites in the past, this is the first time implementing into a large list in 2010.

      My issue is that there seems to be a problem with one of my rules that causes navigation of the form and its tabs to be incredibly slow. If I turn off all rules it speeds up again, also if I use Google Chrome to access the newform.aspx I have zero issues, its as fast as ever.

      There are no errors, just slowness, the offending rule is quite simple, based on a checkbox it unhides a tab and makes around 20 fields mandatory.

      Thanks in advance

    • #8595
      Ryan Cornfoot
      Participant

      Im now getting errors, this one is present on newform.aspx…
      “Message: ‘0.match(…)’ is null or not an object
      Line: 2
      Char: 96533
      Code: 0
      URI: http://MYSERVER/_layouts/1033/init.js?rev=7rurhilS20pNrVcviE3PbA%3D%3DQ”

      And this one when editing rules…
      “Message: ‘0.match(…)’ is null or not an object
      Line: 9
      Char: 1
      Code: 0
      URI: http://MYSERVER/sites/travel/js/JS/DFFS_backend_min.js”

      Both found in IE8 after updating to the newest version of DFFS this morning.

      • This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by Ryan Cornfoot.
    • #8605
      Ryan Cornfoot
      Participant

      Any ideas?

    • #8607
      Alexander Bautz
      Keymaster

      Hi,
      Sorry for the delay, I was away on holiday for a few days.

      IE 8 is a real in the neck… the slowdowns with IE8 is often related to multiple updates to the DOM – like making fields mandatory (by inserting the red star). Could this be related to “reversing” of other rules that does not match?

      Try using the “debug” on the rules to see if some of them are called multiple times, and look at the “No reversing of this rule” setting for the rules that should not be reversed.

      As you already have identified, this is an issue with IE8 only. I guess you have not chosen to stick with IE 8, but if possible, I would strongly recommend using a modern browser instead.

      Alexander

    • #8608
      Ryan Cornfoot
      Participant

      Thanks for the reply Alexander, Really appreciate your time.

      I have narrowed it down to the rules that makes around 15 fields mandatory, the rules that do it for one field seem to be fine.

      I have tested multiple ways with or without reversing, none work, it does seem to be the act of making fields mandatory that causes the slowdown.

      Id love to use a modern browser but the entire company does not use Chrome.

    • #8609
      Alexander Bautz
      Keymaster

      Hi,
      Just to confirm: Exactly which version of DFFS frontend are you using? – you find the version information by hovering over the Enhanced with DFFS and selecting “License and version information”.

      Alexander

    • #8610
      Ryan Cornfoot
      Participant

      Version information
      Autocomplete: not loaded
      Cascading dropdowns: 3.524
      DFFS frontend: 4.354
      DFFS frontend CSS: 4.10 / 4.10jQuery: 1.11.3
      Lookup: not loaded
      Resource management: not loaded
      SPJS-Utility: 1.250
      vLookup: frontend v2.250

    • #8611
      Alexander Bautz
      Keymaster

      Thanks, I’ll see if I can recreate it and find a fix.

      Alexander

    • #8613
      Ryan Cornfoot
      Participant

      Ok thanks very much, I have just checked and it is slowing down on a rule that makes a tab visible and makes 9 fields mandatory – To confirm this is the issue I have disabled all other rules to ensure there is no conflicts or issues with reversing etc.

    • #8617
      Alexander Bautz
      Keymaster

      Hi,
      I have tried to create a simple NewForm with two tabs, where a boolean field show a tab and sets 10 fields as mandatory, but this executed without delay. Can you add some screenshots so I can recreate your form exactly?

      If you prefer to email it to me, you find my email in the “About me” tab above.

      Alexander

    • #8621
      Ryan Cornfoot
      Participant

      The list in question has around 90 columns in total (Dont know if this has any bearing)

      I have attached a screenshot of the main page, ill post another of the tab that is opened

    • #8623
      Ryan Cornfoot
      Participant

      Second screenshot of the actual tab.

    • #8625
      Ryan Cornfoot
      Participant

      More errors when debugging with Chrome

      • This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by Ryan Cornfoot.
    • #8631
      Ryan Cornfoot
      Participant

      Panic over, I have found the culprit.

      One of the fields I was making mandatory had a dropdown containing all Train Stations in the UK (2552 Choices!) When this field was made mandatory it crashes IE8 for approx 30 seconds.

      I have changed the field to a lookup instead 🙂

    • #8648
      Alexander Bautz
      Keymaster

      I suspect that the problem here is the slow javascript performance of IE 8. Did it behave better with a lookup type field?

      If you don’t like the lookup field, you can try the “autocomplete” plugin to DFFS.

      Alexander

    • #8649
      Ryan Cornfoot
      Participant

      Behaves perfectly using a lookup field, ill look into your autocomplete solution 🙂

      Thanks for looking into this.

    • #8655
      Alexander Bautz
      Keymaster

      No problem – thanks for the feedback.

      Alexander

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