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All reports in the reporting framework UI are run asynchronously. Each request to run a report, following the above steps, results in a Report Request being saved to the database. A scheduled process will then pick up this report request and evaluate the report, when appropriate. Under normal operations, this should happen close to immediately. However, there may be times when it a report is Queued for several minutes, particularly if many reports are requested at the same time. The global property setting "reporting.maxReportsToRun", which has a default value of 1, is one way to influence this behavior. Setting this to a higher value may shorten the amount of time a report is queued before it is processed. However, increasing this number too high should be done with caution, as several large reports running simultaneously could hurt server performance.
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