"Hang Time" on form save event with actions running in background

[Markus_Malessa]

I am running a series of actions on multiple form save events and have noticed significant ‘hang time’ as in a pause where the screen just goes blank and it takes about 5-10 seconds before the actions complete and go to the next screen.

Although I understand that these processes can take a little bit of time, my top bar does show the prior screen’s title and a back arrow. I’m afraid that someone might become impatient and just click that back arrow and thereby will navigate away from where I would like them to be.

Is there a way to implement a ‘loading’ screen? Or would someone have a different solution to bridge this issue? The actions include adding records to a ref table and then navigating to a detail view of the parent and the children.

[Steve]

Markus_Malessa:

Is there a way to implement a ‘loading’ screen?

Nope.

[Rafael_ANEIC-PY]

Maaaybe you could include a sync action so you can force the user to watch the sync screen during the process?

Sync Action? Questions

Is it possible access the sync function as an action? My goal is to include the “sync action” in a sequence of actions, only to be executed if a certain condition is true. I know how to do this with actions in general. Essentially I would like my app to sync immediately if a certain condition is met, otherwise, delayed sync is fine. Thanks,

[Markus_Malessa]

I have thought about this, but was concerned that there is a chance that the user might be offline and that this would cause an issue.

[Steve]

Sounds like there’s a legitimate need to consider what these actions of yours are doing that they take so long to complete.

[Markus_Malessa]

Simple explanation is control.

The process is a water level report entry with some very basic information that then adds 1, 2, or 12 child records to a Static Water Level table and possibly a Pumping water level table. Each of the records then also needs needs to be entered into some many-to-many reference tables. All of this is done via up to 5 looping actions with conditions that check if the looping action needs to be performed or not.

I am using the form save event because of data security filters, the data would disappear from the user prior to some of the looping actions if I am using bots to accomplish this (already tried this alternative), so I’m pretty sure I’m stuck with form save event.

At the low end this process adds at least 4 records to 4 different tables, at the high end it could be 40 to up to 6 tables.

Sure would be nice if some sort of loading spinner could be implemented for this without causing a full sync.