Deferring the loading of content in UI elements
Improve the loading time of a web page by preventing certain types of UI elements from loading their whole content on the initialization of the page.
- Choose the UI element for which you want to configure the deferred loading of
content:
Choices Actions Embedded sections - In the navigation pane of Dev Studio, click Records.
- Expand the User Interface category, and then click Section.
- Open the section that you want to edit.
- In the section header, click the View properties icon.
- On the General tab, select the Defer load contents checkbox.
For more information, see Creating an embedded section.
Dynamic layouts, repeating dynamic layouts, column layouts - In the navigation pane of Dev Studio, click Records.
- Expand the User Interface category, and then click Section.
- In the section list, select the section that contains the target layout.
- In the layout header, click the View properties icon.
- On the General tab of the layout properties window, select the Defer load contents checkbox.
Drop-down controls - Open the view with the control that you want to
edit.For more information, see Accessing views in your application.
- In the configuration pane on the right side of the window, hover over the control, and then click the Edit icon.
- On the General tab, in the
List source section, in the
Load behavior list, select one of
the following options:
- On user hover
- Defers loading the content of the Dropdown list until the user hovers the mouse pointer over the list.
- After screen renders
- Defers loading the content of the Dropdown list until after all other UI elements are rendered.
Non-optimized tables - In the navigation pane of Dev Studio, click Records.
- Expand the User Interface category, and then click Section.
- In the section list, select the section that contains the layout that you want to use.
- In the Table header, click the View properties icon, and then select the General tab.
- In the Pagination section, in the Pagination format list, select Progressive.
- Click Submit.
- On the section form, click Save.
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