Crystal 2008 - Report Index Bursting, what is this?

The help in CR defines it as this, but could someone please elaborate.
"The Saved Data Indexes dialog box appears when you select the Report Bursting Indexes command from the Report menu.
Use this dialog box to select the fields you want indexed within your report's saved data. You can increase the performance of a Crystal report by indexing its saved data. Indexes you specify are created when you refresh the report's data."
We have some reports that are timing out, will this help?

Hello,
It may help but with reports with saved data only. What it does is some DB's and tables are not indexed for optimum reporting and if those tables are used as the report data source CR has to do the indexing which can affect performance. What the function does is build a saved data field index so when previewed the report can render the reports pages quicker.
For your issue though I doubt this will help as it would appear your problem is CR is waiting for your data to come from the database.
Some Options would be for you to add indexing to your DB or possibly using a Stored Procedure or something server side to speed up the data collection process and do most of the filtering server side rather than client side.
No info about your data source to go on so not sure what the issue may be.
Thank you
Don

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