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David Sibert
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I am WF 7.6.11 and I need to use 1 xlm file to populate 20 selection lists. All of these lists would be chained/binded from left to right and top to bottom. At present I have them as 6 focexec that would populate the lists and have those binded to each other. This works but it takes up to 3 mins to populate all of the dropdowns. Any ideas?

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Darin Lee
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I may be mistaken, but I don't think you can have a single XML file for multiple controls. Each control has its own XML file.
One suggestion would be to "pre-build" the data that populates each control (some nightly process or such) and hold it in its own file so the fex's retrieval of the data is much simpler and faster.


Regards,

Darin


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Waz
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The other question is how much data is being returned ?


Also, I have returned a single XML file for multiple lists, but, I have custom made the code to populate the lists.


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Tony A
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David,

In 7.6.something, the ability to serve combos from a single fex and cached XML was introduced - although I've not used it.

Search the tech support site for "Retrieving Chained Variable Values With Caching Enabled" and there should be some docs on it.

T


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Enigma006
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May be the databases that the procedures hit is too huge or the procedures are returning lots of data.
Its taking 3 mins but loading correctly makes me feel so.

One solution is already suggested by Darin and I might have used that too..storing data in temporary tables (FOCUS db) and use them to load drop downs. chaining using cache might also work but I had issues with it previously..!!

Post if you got some solution.


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