Discoverer Plus hangs

When working in Discoverer Plus, the cursor will hang and I won't be able to do anything else except for exit and save. Has anyone else had this problem?
Thanks.

We are on 4.1.40.2 We had a hang up problem.We did the following:
1) In Options\General we have "run query automatically"
2) In Options\Advanced uncheck "disable automatic querying"
3) We also removed any background colour in page items.
Our problem seemed to go away. Maybe we were just lucky.
Good luck.

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Disco Plus - hangs when making changes to reports with lots of worksheets

Have run into this several times and the problem seems to go away sometimes on its own and then reappear at a later date.
Have a report that contains 11 worksheets. Can run any of the worksheets with no issues. However, when making a change to any worksheet, Disco hangs on the edit screens and I eventually receive the message "Contact with the Discoverer server has been lost. To continue your work, please restart Discoverer Plus. If this problem persists, please contact your Oracle Application Server administrator" I have tried restarting Disco Plus several times over the course of several days and still the same issue. I have no problems making changes to this same report through Disco Desktop.
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We have 30,000 employees in our company so i sympathise completely!
You shouldn't need to separate each worksheet and make the change separately. The problem we experience is only in Discoverer Plus. I think it has something to do with the memory allocation on the server, which Plus must use. In Desktop we've found that reports like that are fine. They may take a while to save but in terms of editing reports its ok, because the memory on the machine is being used. If you're having problems in Desktop i'd check your PC spec.
I wouldn't say its a program error, not enough memory on the server more like, particularly as you're saying that sometimes you can't do anything and then other times it all works fine. Have you got lots of Discoverer Plus users in your company? If so try coming into work a little earlier and try it then or at the end of the day. If lots of people are running reports its going to slow down.
It could also be that the DBAs haven't allocated enough memory as DBAs generally don't like Discoverer. They love to blame database/server performance problems on Discoverer. We proved them wrong. On one occasion they blamed a major outage on a report that I was running. It was a big report. But they ran traces, plugged in their diagnostics stuff and got me to run the report. It showed up as this tiny blip, they were so embarassed!!
They just need to intelligently configure stuff, build a good data warehouse etc. I use the word stuff because I don't really know much about servers, warehouses, LPARs etc etc. I do think that quite a few DBAs don't embrace Discoverer because they see it as a hindrance to their jobs. If I was keeping a database up and running I wouldn't want cheeky business users 'playing around' with massive data extracts on my turf!
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Edited by: Lloyd T on 24-Feb-2009 13:22

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Is it possible in Discoverer Plus for a user to open a pre defined worksheet in a workbook when he logs in without having to select the workbook and then select the worksheet?
Please advise how to achive this.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you all.
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Hi Yjk
This is possible but you will have to alter the URL call to do it and add the workbook name to the end of the URL.
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& Oracle’s info:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rittman_olap.html
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