Home | SkillForge Blog | Crystal Reports Performance Information Tool

Crystal Reports Performance Information Tool

Business Intelligence, Business Objects, Crystal Reports

After designing a report Crystal Reports provides a built-in utility that will allow you to test performance and shine a light on areas where optimization would be beneficial. It is called the Performance Information tool and can be found by selecting Report > Performance Information in the menu.

menu-performance-information

Once opened, the Performance Information dialog box has a tree structure on the left side that provides five sets of information captured by the tool.

performance-information

Report Definition – Information about the reports content: number of fields, number of summaries, Chart objects, Special Fields, etc.

Saved Data – Data captured in the report: number of data sources, total number of records, size of the saved data.

Processing – Processing of the selected report: grouping and sorting on the server, required page count, number of summary values.

Latest Report Changes – Recent changes to the report.

Performance Timing – These values provide the specific benchmark to determine if any modifications have impacted performance: timing to open the document, formatting the first page, number of pages formatted, and the average time to format a page.

To keep track of these pieces of performance data the Performance Information dialog box offers the option to save the information in a separate text file.

performance-information-save

performance-information-saved-text

These saved files can then be used for comparison purposes. What has improved and what had the greatest impact.

performance-information-text