Large data

[Guer]

Hello,

I want to receive data from a Web Service and load a
repeating table in InfoPath with 2000 rows (with 15
columns with drop-down-boxes). My problem is the
prestanda - it takes too long time to rendering the data
in InfoPath. Does someone know what to do? Do InfoPath
use DOM to parse the data? Can I override the parser to
use SAX instead?

One solution can be to inform the user that it's going to
take a while to load but I have not control to know the
time. I have tried to add each row in .NET code and show
a status bar to the user. The problem is that it take
even longer to load... Is there an event that I can use
when InfoPath add a row to a repeating table?

Thanks in advance.

Regards Gunilla

 

[Andrew Watt [MVP - InfoPath]]

Gunilla,

Can you explain what business problem you are trying to solve?

I can't think of any situation where I would want to have 2000 rows of
data in the same form. Maybe I am being unimaginative. But it just
seems (for the user) an unmanageably large amount of data to be
handling in one form.

Maybe, for some reason, it's the only way forward in your
circumstances. But if you care to share the scenario there may be
other approaches that we can suggest.

Andrew Watt
MVP - InfoPath

 

[Guer]

Hello Andrew,

we are trying to make a system for auditors to
administer "reviewpoints" (one point by row with a lot of
meta data). Every time the user clicks a button the IP
form receive about 2000 reviewpoints from a Web Service.

We saw IP as a complement to Excel and the strength of
IP. Do you have any idea how we should go further with
this problem?

Regards Gunilla