Pausing and resuming dossier execution

When you add attributes and metrics to your visualizations or modify filters in Dossier Authoring, Digital.ai Intelligence Applicationsqueries the datasets and performs calculations to generate your visualizations.

If you are working with large datasets when designing your dossier, these actions can take time. You can pause the dossier execution at any time and perform multiple edits without having to wait for your visualizations to refresh after every action.

To pause and resume execution

1. Click Pause Dossier Execution in the toolbar.
2. Click Resume Dossier Execution anytime to update your visualizations after performing edits.

While the dossier is paused, it will look like your edits are not taking effect. During that time, you can then perform edits, switch the visualization type, add or change filters, and more.

Performing certain edits in your dossier may require a data update. In these cases, such options are disabled when the dossier is paused, but are re-enabled after clicking Resume Dossier Execution .

Filtering when the dossier is paused

You can create new filters, modify their selections, and even define targeting while the dossier execution is paused.

This includes defining visualization filters in the filter panel, configuring visualizations to target other visualizations in the same page or on a different page, and adding advanced filters to your visualizations by clicking Edit Filter... in the visualization context menu.

Note: Any changes made in the Filter Panel while the dossier is paused will be applied when it resumes execution even if the Auto-apply Filters option on the Filter Panel context menu is disabled.

Filter targeting when the dossier is paused

Although you can define filter targets in pause mode, Digital.ai Intelligence Applicationsneeds the execution to resume in order to update the target filters when the selections of a parent filter change. Click Resume Dossier Execution to update the list of elements for filters styles such as checkbox, drop-down, and radio buttons.

Note: You can make selections in the Filter Panel that exclude all data in your visualization. If this happens, update the selections in the Filter panel after the dossier execution resumes.

Opening dossiers directly without executing

You can open dossiers directly in pause mode. This is useful if you want to perform some quick edits and do not need to wait for the dossier display its visualizations. This also allows you to edit a dossier when one of its datasets fails to execute. For example, when an In-Memory Cube is not published or a connection to an external data source of a Live Connect dataset is not successful.

You can perform actions, such as Replace Dataset and Edit Dataset, when pausing dossier execution.

To open a dossier without executing

1. Locate the dossier.
2. Right-click the dossier and select Edit.