BIRT slow in Plateau Report Designer

gallamann

Hi,

Have a customer that is using Plateau and with BIRT via Plateau Report Designer. This tool is terribly slow, it seems every little thing you do sends BIRT off verifing connections or some such thing. For example added a title to a chart we are testing and 10 minutes later it comes back. Hit preview and tool saves, wasting 1-3 minutes on a save. Go to data set query and hit OK instead of cancel, there goes another 5 minutes.

In short, simple changes to design that in a tool like Crystal takes a minute, in BIRT I am wasting hours.

What can I do to drastically improve design time?

Thanx in advance

mwilliams

Hi gallamann,

Do you know what version of BIRT that is being used? I have never used Plateau, so I don't know anything that would help from within it, but I haven't heard of BIRT having this type of performance issue on its own. You might try downloading the BIRT designer separately. You can deploy BIRT separately and call it using the deployed web viewer and URL's or using Java. You don't have to necessarily be stuck with the version embedded into Plateau. If you download the same version of BIRT that is used on Plateau, you can design your reports in BIRT, alone, and then move them over to Plateau for use.

Hope this helps.