Re: [Summary-Talk] Incremental Processing Questions

[John May <jmaymailing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I understand all this.  What I'm wondering if it is possible to add 
to Summary an option to allow editing of sub-reports and NOT 
reprocess at the next hourly interval when in "incremental every 
hour" mode.

Eg: I don't care if the new/modified subreports are accurate until 
the next reprocessing.  It would make daily processing a lot faster 
this way, as I'd set the schedule to do a full re-process once a week.

	- John


>  > >"incremental every hour" is not the same as incremental, none of my
>>  >comments about incremental mode apply to that mode. Yes, it does
>>  >exactly what you said in that mode, after any configuration change
>>  >it will do a full process at the next hourly process time.
>>
>>  Is it possible to change this behavior?  To make it wait until the
>>  next scheduled full process instead?  Without this, it really makes
>>  incremental processing useless for us since we're modifying
>>  sub-reports so often.
>
>You are mixing up the modes again.
>
>In incremental mode, you can't change the configuration (other than 
>adding or deleting a sub-report) without going out of incremental 
>mode. Going out of incremental mode, and then back into incremental 
>mode will force a full reprocess at the next scheduled processing 
>time
>
>You could use that to get something sort of like what you appear to 
>be asking for, but if you are really changing the configuration all 
>the time there wouldn't be any point in using incremental mode in 
>the first place.
>
>If you use "Incremental every hour, regular on schedule", you can 
>change the configuration at any time, but that will force a full 
>reprocess at the next hourly update.
>
>If you are in normal mode you can change the configuration at any 
>time and processing will only happen when you have it scheduled.
>
>>  >  > If I use the full-blown incremental mode, can I modify sub-reports as
>>  >>  well as delete/add them?
>>  >
>>  >As I just said: No, in incremental mode you can add and delete
>>  >sub-reports but you can't change anything about an existing
>>  >sub-report.
>>
>>  So modifying an existing sub-report is locked out in this mode?
>
>If you are in inremental mode, then yes.
>
>>  If I
>>  need to modify a sub-report then, do I have to disable incremental,
>>  modify, then reenable?
>
>If you start out in inremental mode, then yes.
>
>>  If so, does that then trigger another
>>  complete re-process?
>
>Yes, at the next scheduled time.
>
>The purpose of incremental mode is to speed up processing when the 
>configuration is not changing. If you want to be constantly changing 
>the configuration then you don't want incremental mode.
>
>Jason


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