1. User searches a list of customers

2. Selects a customer from the list and goes to details

3. The user than bookmarks this customer details page in their browser.

4. They now close the browser.

5. Some time later they reopen their browser and go straight to that bookmark.

 

At this point when they reopen the page from the bookmark I currently check that there is a connection to the database and retrieve the customer from the database and populate the data on the form. Bit of a load time hit to do this since ive got to connect to db and retrieve data aswell to just show the one page.

 

Do you have any ideas on how I could better approach this?

 

Thanks

The challenge is to know when the user has bookmarked the current page. It may be difficult to get that information from the browser. Of course you could offer a button to press to capture the proper deep link. Or you could just save locally a rolling list of the most recently seen customer details; when the app launches with a link, you can compare it (compare the customer details id component of the URL query string) to your local store of customer details and, if you're lucky, you can present the data immediately.

 

Whether I had a hit or a miss, I would immediately launch an async query to retrieve the most current version of the customer detail. I might also provide a UI cue that the data presently on screen are old (and maybe say how old).

 

None of this is any help if you intend to send the link to someone else; that someone is unlikely to have the targeted customer detail in cache.

 

Hope this inspires you to great things.