Increasing performance with long options list

tegra_andrew

Hello,

For my editor, I have a select2 that's drawing from a long list of options (8000+). Since I'm loading all these in the initial JSON data, it's causing pretty large performance issues. Is there a way to lazy load this list instead of including it in the initial JSON load?

Thanks,

Andrew

allan

Hi Andrew,

Yes, Select2 has remote data options. Their documentation for it is here.

One of the key things to consider when implementing it with Editor is that you need to take account of the initialValue parameter that is set to the server when the form is shown (so it can return the value / label for the current value).

Allan

tegra_andrew

Hey Allan, thanks for your help. I was able to get that working, but I was wondering if there is a way to lazy load data with search panes too?

tegra_andrew

Or could I paginate the search pane with server side data? What would the AJAX load for something like that look like?

colin

You can use SearchPanes with the open-source Editor server-side libraries - this example demonstrates how to do that.

Colin