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Iron Contributor

Feb 20, 2017

Handling content with slow change cycle, how do you do it?

Background (clarified): We have several teams that provides service to customers. For each customer there are specific documents, information, etc. Each team will need to work with their customers ...

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John Aage Andersen

Iron Contributor

Feb 22, 2017

Thank you for replying Asish - we are looking for another solution. The question is more about presentation of information that has a slow change cycle - as we are using SharePoint Online and we understand that the cache may not really be useful in that environment, then we are looking for other ways of speeding up the presentation, without having to go to the servers for the information every time the page is refreshed.

We understand about using JSlink javascripts for modifying column content/presentation, but for a customer cloud, we would have to modify the whole template - which we haven't found any useful source of information about, yet. :)

If we understand XSL processing correctly - using XSlink, then that is done on the server side, before the information is provided to the client. Correct us if we are wrong on that!

Asish Padhy

Brass Contributor

Feb 22, 2017

Hi John,

Sorry haven't used XSlink before so cannot comment on that. But in either case, the XML parsing happening on server or via App code will eat up your cache in session states if multiple users are opening the page simultaneously which seems to be the case.

JSlink is a better option but yes this has to built it into a custom solution packages or apps to deploy to client sites or have to manually set for each web part.

I don't know the exact requirements but again I suppose caching is not a fix to server trips issue. Doing small data pulls and getting data refershed faster is a better solution from my experience. So, you might divide the information into sections/small subsets (may be use an accordion or search) to pull the data into groups. Let me know if this makes sense or may be a complete miss to your requirement.

Thanks,

Asish