Performance Tweaking

Many things can affect the performance of civil pro and its responsiveness. The most important thing is the quality of the connection between where you are running civil pro and where your data is stored. If you have good communications, there is nothing to worry about and you can completely ignore this section. But if you don't...

1. Are you the only user for your database? Or are you the main user with others looking at your data once a month or so? In this case, you should consider switching to a file based version of civil pro (standalone) with the file on your (backed up) local machine. If someone needs to see your data once a month, just send them the file (make sure they have a log in).

2. Try the "slow connection" mode. This is activated by selecting the slow connection button in the Project main menu. This reduces the amount of checking civil pro does to make sure it shows the most recent data. By default, every time you change rows, print a report etc. civil pro checks to make sure the data is accurate and fetches Related Items. If you only need to see related items for specific items rather than every time you change records, have few users accessing your project, or are happy to use the refresh button when you want to check data this may be the option for you. This can be set to default using a constant.

3. Talk to us about terminal servers and project transfer options. These can be tricky and may require some server admin.