I'm thinking a PDF compound document with a Table of Contents may be the way to go, but I'd like to run this by all of you first.

I have a bar graph that displays in HTML. Each bar represents a warehouse location and it will drilldown to a line graph to display a trend for the chosen location. My users currently access this via Sharepoint. They click the link, sign in to MRE and then the report runs. However, it takes about 45 seconds to run, which exceeds the desired requirements.

The report data does not have to be "live", so I would like to generate it overnight via report caster and then send to a site that the sharepoint link can point to.

From what I've read in the doc, the PDF drillthrough feature is not supported in graphs. So should I create the bar graph and then the 20 line graphs and put them all in 1 compound report with a TOC at the beginning?

I'm hoping there is a better way.

Thanks,
Jeralee

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create the bar graph and then the 20 line graphs and put them all in 1 compound report with a TOC at the beginning

... sounds like the way to go. However, try using / passing a format variable such as &WFFMT in your drilldown code with the desired value (PDF) and let us know what happens.

Also, Check the efficiency of the fex first, then IF that's OK, using RC to create the finite source file (as small as possible) is a very good idea IF the code is already running as efficiently as possible.

What you could also do is provide a condensed data file that contains only the aggregated (trend) records for the locations needed to create the graph. That will very probably be a relatively small file and should produce the requested graph in less than the 45 seconds mentioned.

Thanks GamP! I think that's the way I'm going to go. I talked with a few other folks in a training class this week, and the instructor suggested this method, as well.