One is something that you can do for your users, and the other is something that they can do for themselves.
There are two tips here:
2. Enable page view for all views
1. Reusing child windows
Turn on the "Reuse child windows" functionality for Domino Web Access. When this feature is turned on, DWA caches and reuses parts of mail and calendar forms that don't change. The performance time is then improved for the most frequently used actions: reading and creating email messages and creating calendar entries.If you're still using an R6.x Domino server to host DWA, you can activate this function by adding this parameter to the server's Notes.ini:
inotes_WA_ReuseChildWindows=1
However, that parameter is now ignored by Lotus Domino R7 server. by default, DWA users will be presented with a preference to turn the feature on.
This can sometimes confuse people, since the wording is technical and probably not easily understood by the average user.
This functionality is now under the control of the Server Configuration Document, down in the Domino Web Access section.
Enabling this paramter in the Server Configuration Documents forces all Domino Web Access 7 users to reuse child windows and obtain the performance gain. The only issue is that the option still appears in the DWA preferences and get the performance gain. The only issue is that the option still appears in the DWA preferences section with the option greyed out so that the user can't change it, which might invite more help desk calls.
To eliminate those pesky support calls about this option, add the following to the DWA7 server's Notes.ini:
iNotes_WA_DisableReuseChildWindows=1
When DWA users go to their preference, the "Reuse child windows" option will be gone 9as shown below)
2. For all list-type views - show one page at a time
The second option that will speed things up for Domino Web Access 7 is something that the user has to switch on for themselves. (Yes, I know. I don't like that part either. I would rather have a way to pre-set it for the users so that they don't have to deal with it.)
The setting is in the Preference - Display Option section of DWA7.
By default, this option is set to show all documents as a scrollable list. This option creates scroll bars when there is a long list of documents to display. Generally, users inboxes will display large numbers of documents.
Scroll bars and content listed like that take a lot of time to render on the screen. Not a really long time, mind you. But for the technically impatient like you and me ... well, let's just say I have observed the evolution of plankton into land creatures while waiting for my laptop to finish booting.
Eliminate these performance-wasting scroll bars by telling users about the "Show documents one page at a time" option.
Instead of the scroll bars, users will see buttons they can use to page down the lists. They can also use the "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys to move through their messages. It's much faster then scrolling with the scroll bars. You and your users will be surprised at how much this improves the performance of DWA7.
As mentioned before, this is a change you have to tell your users about. You can't control it in policies or configuration documents. And there doesn't seem to be a parameter you can set to force it into place.