We’ve just noticed that when hitting an action button in the forms, the buttons which trigger Cognos processes, it first recalculates all excel workbooks you have open. For the buttons on the front page of the Production Interface, which have the run confirmation prompt, it will do the recalculate even before it gives you the prompt.
We noticed this in the most extreme case when Ammar’s button was taking over five minutes to prompt because he had the APF Deliverable active form excel open in the background, which takes quite a while to populate. Not only does this slow his own process down, but it will also impact other people reading the same data elsewhere.
I can turn off the auto recalculate action prior to the process running, but there is then a risk of some parameters not being updated when being passed to the process.
Are other people experiencing long delays before action buttons trigger processes, potentially due to additional excels being open? Action buttons can sometimes take time to trigger if they are queued behind someone else running a process as well.
If people often have lots of TM1 excels open and it is taking too long to trigger processes then we can look at trying with the auto calculate off, but people will have to ensure that the sheet is all updated prior to running the process.