I have a large served database that uses an opening script to display a plain one-record welcome screen. It functions really well on my desktop clients and on my iPhone. However, on my iPad it is amazingly slow to open. I can see it opening a big complex search and sort layout, I get the red cancel slider and after many minutes of processing it switches to the welcome layout.

My guess is that when the database was last worked on locally (directly with no server) I must have closed the file on that big complex layout. I thought the opening script would over-ride that return to the last used display.

Is there a way to make it go directly to the welcome layout without all this unnecessary processing first? And why is the problem only apparent on the iPad and not the iPhone?

Got it!!!

File Options: Open/Close: Switch to Layout:

I had not specified a layout, instead I had left it to the opening script to make the change. When I specify my welcome layout here the iPad opens instantly.

Strange though that the iPhone did not have tis problem!