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SPGaz74
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Jul 13, 2021
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Tree View Performance with lots of libraries

We have over 8,000 libraries within a SharePoint 2013 subweb. When accessing the subweb, it takes a short duration for the server to return content, but then Internet Explorer takes minutes to render...
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    SPGaz74
    Jul 15, 2021
    Figured it out. The issue was down to the tree view navigation. Inspecting the HTML page, it was over 30MB in size, with almost all of that captured in the VIEWSTATE.

    It was resolved by disabling the tree view and implementing custom JavaScript that obtains the list of libraries using CSOM.
SPGaz74's avatar
SPGaz74
Copper Contributor
Jul 15, 2021
Figured it out. The issue was down to the tree view navigation. Inspecting the HTML page, it was over 30MB in size, with almost all of that captured in the VIEWSTATE.

It was resolved by disabling the tree view and implementing custom JavaScript that obtains the list of libraries using CSOM.

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