Cache Seeding in a prompted report

Hi
We are on OBIEe 10.1.3.4
We have reports that need to be cached because they take too long to run. However, we are unable to seed them as they are navigated reports and get their information from the originating reports. If we run them separately from Answers with the relevant information entered, they do not appear to seed their "dashboard versions" which take a long time to run when fired off later.
Is there any fix to this?
Any helpful answers will be marked and you will earn points.
Thanks

Hi,
Pre-seeding is what you can do as you said....but did you schedule it after the ETL run, when navigated by applying is it taking time?I suppose it should work give a try again following this
http://www.artofbi.com/index.php/2010/03/obiee-ibots-obi-caching-strategy-with-seeding-cache/
If that doesnt work then you have other options like analysing the explain plan of the query and see why its taking time and based on that you need to create indexes or tune the query accordingly,this job can be done by DBA...you can catch hold of him.
Cheers,
KK

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