Ondemand seems to be processing the form.yml.erb for every interactive app we have, even if the user isn’t using them. For example, I have a piece of code in some of our applications forms that grabs all the partitions available for the user, and populates a form field with that data. If I am tail…

Generally speaking - yes. But in this case, there’s already a ticket for the same. We know it’s an issue, just no work has been put into it yet, though I’d like to remedy that. You’re right in that it should work easily and simply and not break every app when one app fails to render. …

Should I open this as an issue on the ondemand github?

Jeff, Thank you for the link to the issue. I for one had made the assumption that the manifest.yml was the only thing read/processed unless you specifically were launching that application. My personal suggestion would be something along this line as a fix. I understand that there is a lot more …

If you have suggestions for work-arounds in the meantime until OOD can resolve this issue I would gladly look into them. Currently I am looking at offloading all the dynamic generation from the form.yml.erb to form.js, but I am not sure if the form.js is processed at the same times the form.yml.erb…

OOD parses and executes ALL form.yml.erb for ALL interactive applications no matter what action

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OOD parses and executes ALL form.yml.erb for ALL interactive applications no matter what action

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