When Editing, Prevent Automatic Updating

When you edit an output on a page (e.g., a calculation or a table), Displayr will automatically update any Inputs & Outputs on the same page. This consumes Displayr resources and can slow performance. This can be avoided by:

• Turning off automatic updating
• Editing the calculation on a different page

Turning off automatic updating

Consider the Inputs & Outputs below. If everything in the Inputs & Outputs is on the same page, and a user edits calc.7, this will cause the other nine outputs on the page - the three calculations and six visualizations - to automatically update.

If Calculate automatically is unchecked for calc.4, calc.5, and calc.6, this will prevent any calculations from being updated when calc.7 is edited.

A risk with this strategy is that you may forget to turn the calculations back on.

Editing the calculation on a different page

By moving calc.7 to a different page (which can be done by cut & pasting the output from one page onto a different page in the Report tree), we ensure that when we edit calc.7, the other outputs will not automatically update (they will only update when the user is on the page where they are located).

Once the editing is finished, the output can be moved back to its original place.