Poor Data Entry Performance

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davas100 - 30 Jun 2005 15:35 GMT

I have a form with a lot of fields (50+ and mostly text boxes). The fields
all have data validation set against them to check for a blank value.

The "performance problem" occurs when the user enters a value in any field
and presses tab or moves to the next field. There is a delay as the form
appears to refresh (i assume it is doing the validation and calculating
related expression boxes). This is very annoying to my users.

Not only would i like to know why this is happening but also a solution if
it cannot be fixed.

Can you turn off the automatic data validation and have the form check on
submit?

Thanks and regards

Chris

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Anton L - 30 Jun 2005 17:32 GMT

I think you need to help those who will reply by providing more details on
the type of validation/rules/event handlers.

For example, your proposed solution may be viable if most of your validation
is custom code so that you can just cut out most of it and insert it into the
OnSubmit handler.

Here are some interesting speeding up suggestions I've seen on the forum:
http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/infopath/3352/InfoPath-extremely-slow-whe
n-using-large-forms

http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/infopath/3752/Load-time-for-an-infopath-for

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