Very large infopath doc performs like a snale in sharepoint

[Michel@Voorburg]

Hi everyone,

i developed (or better: created and weeped) a very large infopath 2007
document for usage in the browser via sharepoint.

It has about 200 fields, much of them calculated values of each other.
Now, when i enter a new value in a field, the recalculation in the other
fields takes about 10 seconds.
So you can understand working with it is not a joy

Is there a way to speed things up?
i only could come up with deviding it in seperate views.

The other thing i thought of was a recalculate button, that entering new
data would not trigger the recalculation of the entire sheet but that some
manual action would do that .... but i don't know how to implement that.

When i export the thing to source files, the xml file is 55KB, the XSLT is >
1 MB....

Regards,
Michel

 

[S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton]

There are a few more tips in this article:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb380251.aspx

You can also disable unnecessary postbacks on controls by going to the
properties of a control and setting the "Postback setting" on the "Browser
forms" tab to "Never" or whatever you want.

Finally, it might be a good idea to send a description of the issues you are
experiencing with your form template and the form template itself to
ipforms-at-microsoft.com because an XSLT of 1 MB sounds insane to me. Get
permission from your boss before you send the template and other info off.

 

[michel @ work]

Hi,

sorry for the late reaction...
We decided to implement the form in a tabular way: buttons on the top of the
form with the looks of a tab-bar, and with the buttons changing different
views.
So now we have 7 different views, the largest with 250 KB of XSLT, and it is
performing very good actually.
Are you still interested in the forms?

Michel

 

[S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton]

Hi Michel,

Just to clarify things: I'm not part of the InfoPath Team, so you would not
be sending the templates to me. Since you solved the issue, there is no
need to send the templates to Microsoft.

I'm glad you got it solved and thanks much for posting your solution; it
will help others.