[Done v157a] Slow admin home page load due to attribute details

On upgrading a client's site to ZC157, admin home page very slow to load - about 9 seconds. So we uploaded a vanilla 157 and got the same results. Page initially loads OK but there is a long pause at the point of loading the new orders widget. Investigation suggested that it was related to looking up attribute data on each product.

With lines 48 - 56 commented out in RecentOrdersDashboardWidget.php , admin page load has reduced to a much more acceptable 1.34 seconds.

Thanks for reporting this finding and doing the analysis.

Perhaps the dashboard widget should say "Open the order to see the attribute details" and not do this additional query?

That makes perfect sense to me - there's only so much information a storeowner can absorb from the one page, and the admin home page really is an overview.

Github issue entered:
https://github.com/zencart/zencart/issues/3794