Slowdown problem with Group repeater in Static Pages

#1

Hi

after updating one of our sites to the October 3 version, we ran into a major slowdown problem.

We are using the Rainlab.Pages plugin in conjunction with group repeater to edit the content of the website (we use it as a simple page builder).

There are always several fields in each Group repeater item (text, richeditor, dropdown, …).

If more than about 15 individual group repeater items are inserted, the administration slows down to the point where the content cannot be worked with and only browser page refresh is possible.

The problem is probably connected to JavaScript used for handling Group repeater/Repeater items.

Has anyone encountered something similar?

The same template with the same defined Group repeater items worked in OctoberCMS v1 without any problems.

OctoberCMS: v3.7.9
Rainlab.Pages: 2.1.3

Thanks in advance,

Jan

#2

I found that this is caused by the Richeditor form widget, which is used many times in Group repeater entries.

Replacing Richeditor fields with plain textarea form field speeds it up to normal. Reducing the number of buttons on the Richeditor toolbar will help just a little.

The version used in OCv3 is probably much more computationally intensive than the one in OCv1.

I’m going to look for a solution :slight_smile: