Multiple checkbox performance

[Parameshwara]

I have about 40+ checkbox module defined in my XML as below:

<module name="Checkbox" layoutPanel="panel_row1_col1_grp1">
    <param name="name">A</param>
    <param name="label">Name A</param>
    <param name="onValue">Name A</param>
    <param name="labelPosition">right</param>
<module name="Checkbox" layoutPanel="panel_row1_col1_grp2">
    <param name="name">B</param>
    ...

When I click on a checkbox, it takes about 2-3 second before the checkbox tick appears. I am assuming this is due to the number of checkbox I have defined. Questions:

1.What can be done to improve this performance?

2.What's the suggested amount of checkbox on a dashboard that will not have an impact on performance (i.e. the checkbox tick to register immediately upon selection)

[sideview · Accepted solution]

I took a look and indeed, if you had a very deeply nested view, there was something that was scaling very badly.

the good news: I removed it. And Sideview Utils 2.4.7 is up, that has this change. If you update to latest this performance problem should go away entirely.

Now I set you up for bad news, but there is no bad news really.

Although if you are unable to update, there isn't a whole lot you could do. You might look at the Checkboxes module instead of using lots of Checkbox modules. It's possible you can do what you're doing with Checkbox instead, although it's not certain - the two are actually used in slightly different use cases. See the Checkboxes documentation for further information.

Thank you for posting the details about the problem, and sorry for not finding this earlier myself.

[sideview]

You just don't know what you're missing, and I say that unironically. You should definitely upgrade. If you're still back at 1.3.5 then you're missing about a hundred bugfixes, performance improvements and new features, and better and more extensive documentation. Plus the massive performance improvement made in 2.4.4. Also if you're a big user of Checkbox you should check out the Checkboxes module. Also the Sideview Editor - a visual authoring system for creating and editing advanced xml views. Too much to list though, really.

http://sideviewapps.com/apps/sideview-utils

[Parameshwara]

I'm still using the free 1.3. version, as haven't found a real need for any particular features in the new version 2. That might change now. Can i install both versions in Splunk?