Poor performance of Bookmarks via Actions and a workaround.
Hi,
Has anyone applied a bookmark via a trigger and experienced a performance issue.
Basically I recently created a Bookmark which contained multiple selections on 3 fields in the underlying model. I the triggered this Bookmark to be applied via the OnActivateSheet event of a particular sheet in my application. This method worked but the downside was it took about 8 seconds to make the selections and enter the sheet.
If a user is on another sheet and recalls the bookmark via the bookmark menu it takes about 3 seconds to apply the selections and enter the sheet.
I subsequently removed the apply bookmark action on the tab and replaced it with 3 separate select in field actions (value1|value2|value3) on the tab. Using this method it takes less than 1 second to make the selections and enter the sheet. This is the method that I am going to use for obvious reasons but I was just wondering if anyone could explain the overhead when a bookmark is applied via an action or perhaps explain what is happening under the bonnet when a bookmarks is applied in this way.
Good spot. I have unchecked Include Layout State and the selections are applied instantly when I trigger the bookmark OnActivateSheet. It appears that the time cost is related to the layout state. I am still interested in what exactly happens under the bonnet when include layout state is checked as there is a huge time difference.
No problem: you can export both bookmarks (with and without Layout State) to xml files. Then open and compare. There is quite a bit of additional code for Layout state.
