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From: Greg Vaut <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG 5.04 speed of opening/closing tags
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 11:04:14 -0500
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Terry,

Thanks for the heads up on the LOP report. I may have to come back to
you then to figure out how to use it this way, but I'll file your
message in my "hold" box!!!

Thanks!
Greg



Terry Reigel wrote:

> Greg Vaut wrote:
>
>> I find it nearly impossible to use the Accent feature because it
>> slows TMG down to the point of extreme annoyance. Project Explorer
>> shows I have 52,000+ names. If I accent "Is an ancestor of" myself,
>> which includes approximately 7,000 individuals. It then takes 15 -
>> 20 seconds for any screen change to occur in TMG: Opening a tax
>> window, opening the picklist, moving to another individual by
>> clicking on that individual, etc.
>
>
> The speed of opening lists or changing focus with Accent turned on
> depends heavily on what the accent specifications are. With a large
> dataset like you have, and using a filter of that calls for
> calculation of a relationship every time you change screens, as this
> does, will take a lot of time. You can't fix this right now in TMG
> 5.04, but when the List of People report is available, you can. What
> you will need to do is create a custom Flag that shows the
> relationship you want, and then use it for the Accent. Since the flag
> will have been already calculated, the Accent feature will work much
> more quickly.
>
> Terry Reigel
>
>
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