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    To A5W and Not to A5W

    yeah cute topic name I know.....

    Been noodling on why this is the case, but cannot seem to resolve on the why it may be.

    I have built a UX component that replaces my tabbedUI and I am pretty happy with the results. Lost a few niceties of the tabbedUI, but the flexibility of having control within the UX I I think it was worth it.
    Basically I have an index_UX that runs a panelnavigator, tabbed and it opens other UXs dynamically. Works great. I like the ability to "reach up" into the parent with the gettopparent and grab state and stuff.
    A few of my UXs are a bit data heavy and I have done the typical optimizations to get them to load reasonably fast (if I can load a page with 10's of thousands of records in a few seconds, all is well).
    I have one however that has been running stable for 9 months that I moved over to my new system outside of a tabbedUI and it takes 12-14 seconds to load.
    HOWEVER.... if I place it in an A5W page and then simply open that page in the dynamic panel, 3 seconds.
    I tried placing one of my other complicated UXs in an A5w page instead of launching it direct and its speed is indifferent... 3 seconds.

    Anyone have any ideas on why this might be the case? The data structures of both UXs are both different, but they are both complex. The one that opens faster if its in an A5W has a published session variable in it I could kill and the other does not.

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    perhaps the slower UX is pre-rendered during the initial load of the tabbedUI so you don't notice the actual time difference of it loading by itself...?
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      #3
      Try opening Chrome Inspector, go to the network tab, then refresh the page and see what takes so long. (Click the time header so it sorts, and work on what gives the best bang for buck.)

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        #4
        what exactly does this mean?
        I moved over to my new system outside
        Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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          #5
          Originally posted by peteconway View Post
          what exactly does this mean?

          Outside was referring my new UX which replaced the tabbed UI as the main menu /UI for my application. It opens different UXs or web pages in tabs much like the tabbed UI does. I took some of the good advice above and have been breaking down the times with chrome inspector. All the different UXs I have tested opening from a tabbedUI and my new replacement UI open nearly identical, except for one, which loads much quicker if the UX is placed onto an a5w page and you load that page instead of the UX alone. Not a major issue, but was curious if maybe I was missing something in terms of the way alpha or the browser prioritizes things.

          I think I am making some headway though using the chrome dev tools. I have some panels I didn’t realize are hidden, but loading data on a parent record selection and things like that. I am also removing a few columns that are not critical.​

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            #6
            If you want me to look at this I can send you a Zoom link. I moved away from tabbedUI a couple of years ago. Or if you want to add a screenshot of your controls for your index page, and the action javascript that opens the ux in the panel, that may help.

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