Performance tips when writing reports

Question

Hello all,Is there a certain way to order members (dense, sparse etc) in report layout commands like <Page, <Row to improve performance, I noticed some improvement by randomly re-ordering. Is there a good thumb rule to follow , pls adviseThanks,raju

Answer 1

This is what I got from Hyperion Support:Reports will have the correct numbers when generated after a calculation. Since dynamic calcs are not processed when performing a calculation, it is not calculated until you perform a spreadsheet retrieval or when you perform a report. If you have an outline with a lot of dynamic calcs, this will affect report writer performance time greatly. To optimize your Report follow the suggestions below: 1. Decrease the amount of Dynamic Calcs in your outline. If you have to, make it dynamic calc and store. 2. Use the Sparse command at the beginning of the report script. 3. Use the Column command for the dense dimensions instead of using the Page command. The order of the dense dimensions in the Column command should be the same as the order of the dense dimension in the outline. (Ex. Column (D1, D2)). 4. Use the Row command for the sparse dimensions. The order of the sparse dimensions in the Row command should be in the opposite order of the sparse dimension in the outline. (Ex. Row (S3, S2, S1)). This is commonly called sparse bottom up method. 5. If the user does not want to use the Column command for the dense dimensions, then the dense dimensions should be placed at the end of the Row command. (Ex. Row (S3, S2, S1, D1, D2)). 6. Do not use the Page command, use the Column command instead.