Design Applications to Optimize View Performance

View performance is an important topic for any Domino developer. Because of the nonrelational nature of Lotus Notes/Domino, views can pose performance challenges when designing applications, especially enterprise applications with large amounts of data and/or a large number of views. Nevertheless, there are steps you can take to maximize performance. Some of the steps you can take to maximize performance include the following:

  • Do not record unread marks— Located on the Advanced tab of the Database properties box, this option causes the database to not mark documents as unread, which increases application performance and reduces disk space.

  • Minimize use of categorized columns that display multiple ...

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