[FX.php List] Web traffic versus native FileMaker use

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Well, ideally closing and opening scripts should not cause problems
when script steps that involve user interface are avoided, however I
have found that not to be the the truth.

ggt

2010/5/8 Jon & Jane Montgomery <vicepresident at comcast.net>:
> Would an Open Script cause the same type of trouble?
>
> Jon Montgomery
>
>
> On 5/8/10 1:25 PM, "Gjermund Gusland Thorsen" <ggt667 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Don¹t use it, it provokes some really bad errors in FileMaker.
>>
>> 2010/5/7 Jonathan Schwartz <jschwartz at exit445.com>:
>>> Great. Thanks for the confirmation.
>>>
>>>
>>> Now, who knows more about the "Close Script"  after every transaction issue?
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>> At 12:07 PM -0500 5/7/10, Dale Bengston wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't think auto-enter calcs are a universal problem. In my case, web
>>>> record creation was being slowed to a crawl by an auto-enter calc that did
>>>> summation based on limits set by globals/constants. This worked fine
>>>> client-server, but from the web those limits were empty, so the summing
>>>> happened on the entire table. The more records that were added, the slower
>>>> it got.
>>>>
>>>> I modified two auto-enter calcs out of around 125 in order to fix this
>>>> problem. The rest continue to fire just as they do client-server.
>>>>
>>>> Dale
>>>>
>>>> On May 7, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  A clarification on the potential problem with Auto_Entry Calc...
>>>>>
>>>>>  Are we talking about ALL auto entry calcs, or just ones that need to
>>>>> perform long process to calculate?
>>>>>
>>>>>  I understand the latter case, but not the former case... if the calc is
>>>>> just performing a simple operation such as random number generation.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Would like to know
>>>>>
>>>>>  Jonathan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  At 9:45 PM -0500 5/6/10, Dale Bengston wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I set a flag field in the parent (invoice) record that identified the
>>>>>> order as a web order. Then I wrapped the offending auto-enter calcs in a
>>>>>> conditional that only allowed the calculations to take place for line
>>>>>> items
>>>>>> created on orders with no web flag. This allowed the calcs to still happen
>>>>>> for client/server records.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Since this solution was not my work, it took several tedious hours of
>>>>>> trial and error to identify which fields had the offending calcs. There
>>>>>> were
>>>>>> a lot of auto-enter calc fields. A lot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Dale
>>>>>>
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