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Jason K.
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I have a list of about 5,000 customers assigned to about 100 salespeople, and I'd like to create a form that users can select a salesperson or customer.

There's too much information for this to retrieve quickly, and since I want to chain these controls in the html layout painter, it takes a long time for the chain to update when a user selects a salesperson.

Is there any better way to do this? I've never had any luck with this much data in an html form so we're hoping to find the 'best practice' to fix this issue.


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FrankDutch
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the number of record is not that big but the performance can be positive influenced if your database has the proper indexes and key fields.

You also can start the selection with a small list A-Z that must come quick on the screen.

(I think you have posted that too)




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GCohen
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Here is an idea. You can contruct your own connected lists in WebFocus by using the 'expandable' report idea.
TABLE FILE STUFF
COUNT ENTRIES NOPRINT BY SALES_PERSON
COUNT ENTRIES NOPRINT BY SALES_PERSON BY CUSTOMER
ON TABLE SET EXPANDABLE ON
...
You see only the list of SALES_PERSON, when one is selected the customers are shown only for this SALES_PERSON

The reason this may be faster is that in the later releases the entire report is not fully formated , and only the selection is formated.


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Tony A
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Jason,

If the relationships do not change that much, one method would be to use ASP and then use the ASP include syntax (#include ......) to include pre-prepared option lists created in batch overnight. See previous posts by Susannah for more detail (or I'm sure Susannah will "chip in" here).

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Jason K.
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tony: the ASP idea seems valid. The only issue I'm running into with that idea is how to call the .fex using the supplied values.

Does anyone have an example ASP form they could post or send me? I would like to see through example. I've worked in asp and php before...


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