[Vtigercrm-developers] Count all the things!

[Christophe Humbert]

Hello Alan,

Yes you are right. My approach was more a quick fix...maybe not so clean :)
The advantage of yours is that is built in a module and does not require to
touch the core code of Vtiger
But indeed it would be interesting to have a comparison of the 2

Christophe Humbert



On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Alan Bell <alan.bell at libertus.co.uk> wrote:

>  It would be interesting to compare the performance of the two approaches,
> in the PHP server side method (your code) it is doing all the counts before
> the page renders to the user, which should be fairly quick, but any delay
> does impact directly on the page load time. With my alternative approach
> there is no added delay in rendering the page to the user, but once the
> page has arrived there are a bunch of subsequence requests to the server
> for the counts. In theory the same amount of processing, but any delay
> doesn't get between the user and the page being in front of them. With the
> javascript approach I can also do things like update the counts when you do
> a quick create button, because that is all client side events I can
> register for and respond to. Now on the down side, I make a heap of extra
> small requests to the server, the policy of the browser means you can only
> do 6 or so in parallel to the same server, so you get to wait for some of
> them (which is also why the calendar performance sucks) this extra waiting
> almost doesn't matter for the counts, however if you go to detail mode and
> then quickly hit edit you do end up for all the counts to resolve before
> your edit request happens. If this was more of an issue I was thinking that
> I could do a service in my module to get all the counts for related lists
> in one request, basically serialise all the requests together and deliver
> one answer to all of them. This is barely worth doing for the purposes of
> updating the counts, but could be a dramatically big fix for shared
> calendars with more than 6 people.
>
> Alan.
>
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> On 06/05/15 10:00, Christophe Humbert wrote:
>
>  Congratulations Alan
>
>  I hope you reuse part of my code i posted some weeks ago
>
>  Christophe Humbert
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> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Alan Bell <alan.bell at libertus.co.uk>
> wrote:
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>> I am pleased to announce another module in the store, this one is nice
>> and straightforward and useful, in detail mode it adds a count to the
>> related item navigation on the right of the screen. That way you can see
>> from an organisation how many trouble tickets or contacts or whatever that
>> there are, before clicking through all the links (or by pressing page down
>> if you have the Keyboard Junkie module installed).
>>
>> it is available now in the marketplace
>> https://marketplace.vtiger.com/app/listings?id=148
>>
>> or from github (clone, zip and enjoy)
>> https://github.com/AlanBell/LSRelated
>>
>> Alan.
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