[FX.php List] Faster record creation?

Gjermund Gusland Thorsen ggt667 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 01:56:42 MDT 2008


The lower the amount of fields on the layout used for record creation,
especially on the child records, the faster the FMNew()

ggt

2008/9/15 John Funk <csinfo at criticalsolution.com>:
> I have a solution that when a new company is entered and record created it
> also creates 1064 records in a child table. I am looking to streamline the
> process so instead of taking 70 seconds to create the records it is
> somewhere around 30 seconds. Any feedback will help.
>
> This is the current looping process:
> 1. Create new parent record. (Company)
> 2. Find records from the category table (Category) (1064 found)
> 2a. For each found Category, create a record in Company_Category with CompID
> and CatID.
>
> There are a few other methods I have tried with marginal improvement.
> 1. Perform the record creation in FileMaker with a looping script called
> from PHP.
> 2. Perform the record creation in FileMaker using exports and imports called
> from PHP.
> 3. Created a duplicate FM Layout with just two fields for FX to create the
> Company_Category records.
>
>  I have looked at the FileMaker record counter diring tests and the slowness
> is NOT in the Find Category, it is in the record creation.
>
> Any ideas on creating records faster?
>
> John Funk
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