Best Practices Guide

Jefferson Garcia

Hi,

 

Is it possible to have a separate folder for best practices where people can share ideas on how we should be coding or creating our process solutions?

 

 

Jefferson Garcia

Watch out some tips on improving performance and best practices guide to be posted as I am consolidating all the information for us to improve performance of our system by 1000 percent.

Chuck Gembarowski

Hi Jeff,

We have discussed this a few times.  I think that it would be a great idea to have a best practices area for discussion.  In order for any board to be viable we have to have enough content and participation.

 

What does everyone else think?  Should we create a new board for the purpose of trading ideas about best practices?

 

Chuck

Brian Mellert

I know I'd be interested and would participate when I had something worth contributing.

Jefferson Garcia

I think there are a lot of potential discussions here such as architecture, etc...

Chuck Gembarowski

Hi Jeff,

I was wondering if you were ready to contribute the performance/best practices guide.  I think that it is a great idea.

 

Chuck

Jefferson Garcia

Hi Chuck,

 

Yes I have complied some notes. Should I post it here or will you create a separate section?

Chuck Gembarowski

Let's start posting here and if we get enough content, we can create a new board.  To make it easier let's TAG the posts with something like Best Practice...  Sound good?

 

Thanks for your active participation.  It really goes a long way.

 

Chuck

Jefferson Garcia

Designing Forms (using Web Client):

 

Typically, when designing forms we always want all records displayed on the page. Don't forget that forms are rendered as web pages. We should be aware that web forms by default has their timeouts and we should always consider the following:

 

1. Enable Client Paging. A grid that does not use paging will take ages to load especially if the underlying query contains several joins.  By enabling client paging in the grid controls, this helps the browser to load the form quicker. The number of items per page varies per requirement but it should be no more than 50 per page.

 

2. Do not place too many controls and data in a single form. A form that uses lots of controls contributes to increase in page size which may affect the performance when loading the form. This is certainly useful when you have a global company and end users are geographically separated and there is limited bandwidth and high network latency.

Neil_Hudspeth

You might also want to take a look at this post:

 

http://communitycentral.metastorm.com/t5/Everything-BPM-Version-9/Performance-issues-in-Webclient-version-9-1/m-p/275997/highlight/true#M326

Jefferson Garcia

NaH is correct but how do we validate if we have configured IIS properly? Remember, if we enabled output caching and compression in IIS there is some overhead in the server which may cause some problems in performance so we need to be careful on adjusting IIS.

 

We used the following tools to check if caching is working and compression is working but before you start tweaking IIS it is important you get a baseline of your current configuration.

 

1. Use Fiddler or HTTP Watch - using this tool will show all interactions between IIS and the browser.

2. Use Performance Monitor - this tool is already available in Windows. It is a great tool in diagnosing issues in the server such as performance. It will be able to record the CPU usage, RAM, network, etc...