As I look at different installations of ShowCase, I ran into several sites that the search results were very slow. Couple of questions:

Server load - What can I expect for server load? I will possibly have 1000+ entries each year. How big can this product grow before we run into speed/loading issues?

Loading image - Is it possible to implement a "Loading" image while entries are being retrieved?

Scott

We're currently only on version 1.1.0 of ShowCase and just starting to see some issues like this. What you are seeing is not server load-based delay. The search interface in ShowCase is based on AJAX. This means that we precache a lot of information directly into the user's browser and then, as the user clicks different options, etc. they displayed search results change instantly.

Since we are seeing delay in getting the necessary data into the browser we will be adding some type of mechanism in an upcoming release to notify the user that "loading" is in progress. With this in place it should provide the user with enough information to be aware of what is going on.

Mark

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Very nice!