relationships screen sooo slow to load - what are your specs?

[kiwiora]

I'm going to get IT to upgrade my PC. When i go into relationship layout it's so slow to navigate around it's ridiculous. Attached is example of my relationships - as soon as I drag a TO it sits there and tries to re-draw everything ack.

I have a Dual Core Pentium 2.8ghz, 500mb of Ram running Windows XP. Stock standard video driver - IT guy argues that upgrading this won't make a difference :)

[Oldfogey]

Your IT guys could be right. My impression (no real studies done) is the FMP gets very slow when refreshing any kind of window that contains a lot of material. Whether this is an FMP problem or a video driver problem I'm not sure but my money is on an FMP problem. It could be RAM but I'd be surprised; I have 1Gb but FMP never uses much of it, certainly not enough to suggest 500Mb might be a problem.

(Is that application something to do with Queensland politics and who knows whom?)

[Genx]

Are you working on the file locally or remotely? I agree with your IT guy too, i work fine on a file with a lot more TO's than that -- 2.7GHz, 1GB ram laptop.

Edited March 8, 2007 by Guest

[IdealData]

Try breaking the problem down...

Move some of the TOs (the pink group) out of view.

I agree with your IT guy.

[Søren Dyhr]

I seem to be recognizing what your solution is aiming at, you use a lot of calc'fields as keys for relations that perhaps could borrow the gist of this principle instead:

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/176396/post/204083/hl//

Think of for a while - that calc'fields are unique to filemaker as application ...and filemaker isn't the sole application to develope a solution in the vicinity of what you want.

We have all in our first solutions made structurally mayhems, only to think just a short while later that something simpler might do! Perhaps you need to reread Harris explanations??

--sd

[Genx]

Yeh, just as a general note, your yellow and pink groupings seem repetitive and possibly unecessary -- what exactly is their purpose?

[kiwiora]

I have to pull the data back to specific field names so I can export that information and merge it into word.

i.e on one side i need to know what date A, date B, and date C equal so when i merge into a letter it says

[We wrote to you on "Date A" and advised you on "Date B". The date of xyz is "Date C"] type thing.

So the other table is just "type" and "date" and on the current it just says if "type" = "A" just pulls back what the LATEST date is of the relationship.

I hope that makes sense (it's a lot more involved than that lol).

Oldfogey - close but no cigar, it's representative of our f[censored]d up legal system ;-)

I don't wanna tell our IT guy that more RAM won't work *pout* I want a bigger faster machine hehe.

[mr_vodka]

I don't wanna tell our IT guy that more RAM won't work *pout* I want a bigger faster machine hehe.

So after you find the solution, dont let him know. Get him to update your machine and then ta-da you show him its fixed. The upgrade must have done it! lol.

[kiwiora]

So after you find the solution, dont let him know. Get him to update your machine and then ta-da you show him its fixed. The upgrade must have done it! lol.

That's what i'm talking about :

And I need a 21" screen.. that would help wouldn't it? :clap:

[Genx]

Yeh sure why not , everything helps

[Søren Dyhr]

[We wrote to you on "Date A" and advised you on "Date B". The date of xyz is "Date C"] type thing.

Couldn't it be solved a little more transaction'ish by means of say this CF:

http://www.briandunning.com/cf/308

...not something to throw such a web of relations after, to get all represented in one single document for printing, there are alternatively the opertunity to cut up a portal into single lines where each might have it's own set of fields shown and styled.

--sd

Edited March 9, 2007 by Guest

[Oldfogey]

So, Kiwiora, you presented the wrong problem! It's not a technical problem but a political one. All you need do is re-enter your original post, we'll all respond agreeing that you need a bigger better machine, you show your IT guy and Bob's y'r uncle!

:yay:

[Genx]

LOL!!!

[LaRetta]

We could start a business ... "Convince your Boss while you wait." Heck, we'd even email the responses directly to Management for people. ROFLMAO!

Love it, Paul!

[kiwiora]

Sweet

I found out this will fix my problem

Monitor 30 Inch Dell ™ 30 HC Ultrasharp Widescreen LCD

Incidentally, I stuck a stick of RAM in and it did help it out a bit. (So i'm gonna ask for even more hehe)

Soren - I will look into this further. But from what I remember we discounted this due to what we have to get it to do. Tks.

[Genx]

Lol, doesn't load... What's it actually called, i want one too :)

[kiwiora]

Sucky.. It didn't load, went to the webpage and came back and it appeared.

Anyway, try this then. It's Monitor 30 Inch Dell ™ 30 HC Ultrasharp Widescreen LCD (go to www.dell.com.au, small business, monitors)

[Genx]

Lol, 30" is so wrong..

[kiwiora]

I'm gonna get a lazy-boy chair and bar fridge to go with it

Ok, nuff of this day dreamin, back to work :)