Advantages & disadvantages with embedded, external use of sub reports

Hi Guys,
I have a Question on "re-import subreport when open" option, which is available for sub report and it will reimport the sub report every time when we open the main report.
With that option we can see every modification until when we open that report.
My question is, does we have any document which specifies the Advantages & disadvantages of using Embedded, external(re-import) subreports in Main reports.
And i have one more scenario, i have a subreport which is used in ten reports. In every report i am taking the same Sub report from shared location and check the option "reimport subreport when open". So when i apply any change that change will applied for all ten reports at my next schedule.
My Question is: if the Subreport executes 10 minutes and i scheduled all the 10 main reports at a time. At that time does the sub report lock for one report or it will use for all the 10 reports? Can anyone give brief explanation about this?
Regards,
Naga.

hi Naga,
the only advantage to this feature is that changes are reflected when opening your report. that's it....useful for changes when you're in dev mode. disadvantage may be slight loss of speed vs. just embedding the subeport and then manually reimporting.
the second question should probably be directed to the bi platform and not in cr design as you're scheduling.
-jamie

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