Lagging while loading form on mobile

Hi Aaron,

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Phil

This is Phil from the Mobile team. My first two questions would be a) how large of a form have you created, and b) what sort of iPad are you using? We've seen before that rather large forms (e.g., say 3-5 or more screens' worth of scrolling with dozens of form elements) that you can get some UI-flickering and slow down, which is exacerbated by older/less powerful hardware.

A few suggestions that could help improve your experience would be:

- split your form out into multiple display form pages. Rather than one giant page with dozens and dozens of options, you could make it into 3-4 logically grouped pages. This can also make for a nicer experience for your users as they're not having to scroll as much

- make use of collapsible sections. Workflow offers both standard collapsible sections as well as the new 'accordion' sections (where only 1 per grouping can be open at a time). This will also reduce the amount of content displaying at once

- hiding/showing form elements as needed. Same sort of idea as above, just dynamically reducing the current display load within the form without using multiple pages or sections

Hope that helps!

Phil MacIntyre

Thanks Phil.

That's kinda what I thought but just wanted to confirm with someone.

Also just checking out Accordion.. wow that's neat.

Thanks a lot!

Update 

Tried using collapsible sections (Client's environment is 3.25 so Accordion is not available). But the same performance issues are noted. 

Will Accordion help? or splitting them into different forms is the safest bet? or do we need to hide the elements when the section is collapsed? 

Hi Aaron,

Collapsible and accordion are essentially the same, the only difference being that accordion sections only allow one to be open at a time. If using collapsible sections, while many of the elements are collapsed, doesn't help, I wouldn't expect accordions to make a difference.

Splitting them into separate forms might be your best bet. What sort of hardware are you testing against? How many elements/how much data are you trying to pack into a single form?

Phil

Hi Phil,

Just to clarify, if many of them are collapsed it wouldn't work? I would expect less items opened would work better.

We are testing it on a ipad 7th gen and an ipad pro 2020. 

The form we are having the most issue on has 10 sections, each has 4 elements (2 dropdowns and 2 texts). And a changed event setting feature attribute on each of those.

We have 3 other forms that are essentially doing the same thing, they have 3, 2 and 8 sections respectively. 

Thanks,

Aaron

Hi Aaron,

Yes, you're correct. If the sections are collapsed I would expect it to be a bit more performant than if they were open.

That hardware sounds reasonable for Go; I would in particular expect good performance out of the Pro model.

That size of form sounds about right for the issues you're describing. We've made some improvements in our last several releases around form optimizations, but unfortunately one of the third party libraries we use is still causing us some issues. We'll continue to work to improve our forms, but for the moment I think breaking your form into a few separate forms might be your best bet to prevent the responsiveness issues.

Cheers,

Phil

Could it be related to the Change events?