Do invisible repeating groups perform searches?

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I’ve heard that they don’t, but there is one thing that doesn’t make sense. I have a search that returns around 500 results. This search can only be performed by 3 users (admin) and still this search is the reason for 20% of my workload consumption. Only today, it was performed over 200 times.
Today I had around 60 active users and the repeating group that does the search is inside a group that is only visible to admins.

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Hmm. That’s tricky. Is the repeating group visible by default and hidden with a conditional? Or is it hidden by default and shown with a conditional?

Normally I have my admin page as a completely different page for security reasons. :man_shrugging:

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The repeating group is inside a group that is hidden by default and shown with a conditional.

I’ll probably move that to another page soon. I just started on this app, and the previous developer created the entire app on a single page.

I want to understand what is happening here and where all those searches are coming from

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Yeah. Definitely move it to a different page. The developer could have done a lot of things so it’s hard to know without diving into it.

It could be a workflow that is briefly showing it. Or it could be a state that it is referencing. Or a variable from somewhere else.

Moving to another page would be what I would do. Then no need to worry about it. Hope that helps a bit. :blush:

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I just spend around 2 hours looking for it, and couldn’t find. I’ll definitely do it, that looks like the best option anyways.

Thanks for your answer!

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Welcome. :blush:

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the repeating group is only searched and returned to the page if it is visible or the results are used to resolve conditions or math on the page

if it is hidden and unreferenced then no data is sent to it (until it is needed)

however, the group it was in - if the group is set to visible and then hides if not admin user, well then the repeating group is visible on page load so it would receive data before it is hidden by the condition

you could also reduce the data received by using privacy rules

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