I need to make some report formatting changes in Application Studio, but editing the reports is very slow I assume because I'm connected to the database. Is there a way to edit reports offline?
I assume you are working with an OLAP DB on the Cloud?
The speed depends on a lot of factors e.g. your internet speed and distance to the server.
One possible solution if you are doing heavy development is to have a local installation of EPM on your laptop just to develop reports. Completed reports can then be copied to the cloud. Your laptop needs to be of decent spec. e.g. with 32GB+ of RAM.
Yep cloud. I like the idea of a local install, but it looks like this laptop only has 16GB of ram.
What are the first steps to take for a local install? I can try that and then prove how it doesn't work well due to lack of ram (or fails to install) after which I can try asking for more ram.
It will likely install but run very slowly. You probably need a friendly IT colleague to install SQL locally as a repository.
For anyone else running into this issue I did find one setting within Application Studio that helped: Extras->Settings->General. In there set Formals to 'Calculate Manually (F9)'. This way every formula doesn't recalculate after every little thing you do. If you need to see updated data you can always hit the hotkey F9.
