[FX.php List] Faster record creation?

[Roger Moffat]

I imagine that having the fields indexed also adds some overhead.

Roger

On Sep 16, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Dale Bengston wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> You mentioned that the record creation is the slow part. Are there  
> calculation fields in your child records? Summary fields? These can  
> slow dow record creation considerably.
>
> Dale
>
> On Sep 16, 2008, at 8:04 AM, John Funk wrote:
>
>> The layout I have to use with FMNew() has only the two fields I am  
>> writing.
>> Thanks
>> John
>>
>> On 9/16/08 2:56 AM, "Gjermund Gusland Thorsen" <ggt667 at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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