BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Modifying Desktop Intelligence Report Server performance settings

The Properties tab of the Desktop Intelligence Report Server in the Central Management Console allows you to configure many of the same settings as the Page Server, plus additional report sharing settings.

To modify Desktop Intelligence Report Server performance settings

1. Go to the Servers management area of the CMC.
2. Click the link to the Desktop Intelligence Report Server whose settings you want to change.
3. Make your changes on the Properties tab.

The options include:

Share Report Data Between Clients

This setting appears only for Desktop Intelligence server. Select to allow users to share data from Desktop Intelligence documents with other users.

Viewer Refresh Always Yields Current Data

When enabled, the "Viewer Refresh Always Yields Current Data" setting ensures that, when users explicitly refresh a report, all cached pages are ignored, and new data is retrieved directly from the database.

When disabled, this setting prevents users from retrieving new data more frequently than is permitted by the time specified in the "Minutes Between Refreshes from Database" setting.

Oldest On-Demand Data Given To a Client (in minutes)

The "Oldest On-Demand Data Given To a Client (in minutes)" setting determines how long cached report pages are used before new data is requested from the database. This setting is respected for report instances with saved data, and for report objects that do not have on-demand subreports or parameters and that do not prompt for database logon information. Generally, the default value of 15 minutes is acceptable: as with other performance settings, the optimal value is largely dependent upon your reporting requirements.

Always Share Report Jobs

This setting appears only for Desktop Intelligence servers. Select to allow users to share report jobs with other users by default.

For more information on other settings, see Modifying Page Server performance settings.

4. Click either Apply or Update:
• Click Apply to submit changes and restart the server so that the changes take effect immediately.
• Click Update to save the changes. You must restart the server for the changes to take effect.