Performances with hidden nodes in Kendo UI for jQuery TreeView

Marcello

78 posts

Member since:
Apr 2013

Posted 01 Mar 2019 Link to this post

Hi,

with the latest release the performances of KendoTreeView are much improved.
Applying a search strategy like in https://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/controls/navigation/treeview/how-to/filtering/filter-out-search-results, however, response times are still disastrous.

Is it possible to remedy?
Thanks a lot,
marc.

Joana

Admin

210 posts

Posted 05 Mar 2019 Link to this post

Hello Marcello,

We targeted performance optimizations with the last release, filtering including. However, the filtering concerns recursively traversing through each node and its children. Heavy data might lead to extra time to execute the filter and render the nodes. I suggest that you use kendo.throttle method to limit the number of calls to the filtering method for certain time which will boost the performance:

Updated the referenced article in a dojo that illustrates its usage: DOJO

$("input").on("input", kendo.throttle(function() {

var query = this.value.toLowerCase();

var dataSource = $("#treeview").data("kendoTreeView").dataSource;

filter(dataSource, query);

}, 300));

Regards,
Joana
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Marcello

78 posts

Member since:
Apr 2013

Posted 05 Mar 2019 in reply to Joana Link to this post

Hi Joana,

it may be interesting to discuss the optimization of recursive search algorithms, but in this case it is an obvious bug.
Your example contains 50 items. Any processor can scroll back and forth at least a billion times without the user noticing. Yet even your example, so simple, clearly shows a waiting time between the keydown and the result. I suggest you try a more realistic example, let's say, without exaggerating, with 5000 items.
It is quite clear that something does not turn out the right way ...

Joana

Admin

210 posts

Posted 06 Mar 2019 Link to this post

Hello Marcello,

Thank you for your feedback.

Indeed, I agree with you that there are search optimizations that could be applied. Moreover, the current implementation of the filtering empties the treeview container and re-renders the respective items which comes also at a price. However, for the short-term future we have not planned further revising and optimizing the filtering. We appreciate your feedback and will take it into account for prioritizing performance enhancements.

Regards,
Joana
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