g_scratchpad
Another means by which to improve client-side performance, is by making certain information available on the client, and sent along with the rest of the data about the record from the server. This can be accomplished using g_scratchpad, a shared object available both to display business rules, and client-side scripts.
Display business rules, executing as they do, on the server, have access to the current object, and the server-side API. This is an incredible resource for performance optimization on the client, because you can prevent nearly all server lookups from client-side scripts, if you can predict them in advance!
For example, consider a scenario in which you need to display the Manager of the assignment group in a field ...
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