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- December 16, 2015 at 4:40 pm #10005
Hello PerfectForms users,
Today I would like to share a tip used to Optimize form performance, and make builds go by a little bit quicker.
Many form designs require data from 1 field to appear in another field. For this action we have 2 options that will work. The behaviors are “Copy Fields”, and “Set Fields”.What is the difference between the 2?
Copy fields is a function that will strictly copy data from one field to the other. This functionality does not come with many bells and whistles; however you are able to use this function to optimize performance as one command can copy a large number of fields to another set of fields.
If you were to use a “Set Fields” behavior, you would need to build out a string of set fields in order to achieve the same goal.Now that I know about copy fields, why would I use a set field?
This is a good question. Although set fields is limited to only setting one field at a time, you are provided with a vast number of options. Set fields has much more power than a simple copy function behind it. The abilities in set fields are the following:
- * Data manipulation
- * Data search
- * Pulling data from external calls
- * Formatting data
- * Utilizing concatenation to string together data fields
All these abilities, and much more are located on the set fields command when you configure the result. With that being said, there is a simple principle I like to use when deciding which is best for my build.
- * If you need to change the data you are setting in any way, use a set field.
- * If you need an external command, Use a set field.
- * If you only need to repeat data across a form, use a Copy field.
Using this structure should help you limit the amount of commands packed into your form. This will result in the following benefits:
- * Faster Forms
- * Lower build time
- * Less testing
Thank you all for reading, please feel free to post any questions or comments below, and I will be sure to provide an answer.
Happy Form Building! - AuthorPosts
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