# Starting with 18 everything gets calculated

**URL:** <https://the.fmsoup.org/t/starting-with-18-everything-gets-calculated/765>\
**Category:** Heads-Up!\
**Tags:** performance, grayed-area, off-screen, calculations\
**Created:** [February 13, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/starting-with-18-everything-gets-calculated/765 "2020-02-13T00:26:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Cecile](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/cecile/32/98_2.png) [@Cecile](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/Cecile)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/starting-with-18-everything-gets-calculated/765/1 "2020-02-13T00:26:40Z")

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I was listening to a presentation by Douglas Walllis at DevCon 2019 and I don't know if people are aware but they changed how FileMaker deals with the info in the greyed area: eventhough those objects are not rendered in the window, if they involve calculations, those calculations and anything related is downloaded from the server and processed.

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**Author:** ![Malcolm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/malcolm/32/196_2.png) [@Malcolm](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/Malcolm)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/starting-with-18-everything-gets-calculated/765/2 "2020-02-13T01:16:36Z")

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Are you referring to the objects that are placed outside the layout rendering surface (the grey area) in layout mode?

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**Author:** ![Cecile](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/the.fmsoup.org/cecile/32/98_2.png) [@Cecile](https://the.fmsoup.org/u/Cecile)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://the.fmsoup.org/t/starting-with-18-everything-gets-calculated/765/3 "2020-02-13T01:49:43Z")

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Yep. The place where we sometimes put messages, fields and what not.