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Qrew Captain
7 years ago

Writing to a logged text field via API over a certain number of logged entries

This question is more for solving my curiosity than it is a request for alternate solutions.  I was using a formula rich text field functioning as a button to make an API_EditRecord call to update a l...
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EvanMartinez
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7 years ago
Hi Christine,

Out of curiosity when you are writing the data over via the API_EditRecord and writing into the log edit field are those logs bringing over a large amount of data or only a few lines of text? I have worked with users in the past to update log edit fields from another entry field via Actions, Automations, and buttons and not run into this same slowdown but some imports/edits can be impacted by a large amount of data being passed or high traffic during the time the method was used.
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ArchiveUser
Qrew Captain
7 years ago
Hi Evan, 

Thanks for the feedback.  No, actually, it's 15 or less characters worth of updates each time.  The slowdown only occurs after there are approximately 8 or more previously logged (15 char or less) entries.  It's not a huge problem for me as the field I'm writing to is unlikely to have more than 2 or 3 logged entries.  It just sparked my curiosity, and I wanted to run it down in the event we have to deal w/ this same issue with a heavily logged field. 

Thanks again!