Improving Document Execution Performance

By default, the width of your document and the height of your document's sections are calculated automatically when the document is executed. This ensures that it is automatically resized to display all of its content. If you disable this automatic size adjusting, you can improve the speed at which the document is executed. This change applies to documents executed in Interactive Mode only. Enabling or disabling automatic re-sizing does not affect how a document is exported to Excel or PDF. When a document is exported to Excel or PDF, it is automatically positioned as far to the right as necessary to effectively display it.

To ensure that document width and section height are not resized automatically:

  1. From the Admin menu, choose Preferences. This displays the User Preferences page.

  2. Under Settings, click Report Services. This displays the Report Services user preferences page.
    Note: If you are an administrator, you can specify these Report Services preferences on a project-wide basis in the Report Services preferences within the Project Defaults page.

  3. To ensure that the width of your document is not resized automatically, from the Document Width Mode Calculation drop-down list, select Off.

  4. To ensure that the height of sections in your document are not resized automatically, from the Document Section Height Mode Calculation drop-down list, select Off.

  5. Click Apply to save your changes.

  6. You can also improve the speed at which a document is executed by setting the following properties. You can edit these properties in the Layout tab of the Properties dialog box when editing a document section:

Note: In some cases, your PDF document may appear differently than the document displayed in one of the view modes. For example, if you add a grid report to a section and enable the Can Grow setting for this section, when the document is executed in PDF, the section will automatically adjust such that the entire grid is displayed regardless of the amount of data within it. However, when the document is executed, if the Document Section Height Mode Calculation option is set to Off, the section retains its fixed height and the grid may appear truncated, depending on the amount of data it contains.

 

 

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