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Performance

The response times for report invocation will vary depending on what report is requested, parameters passed, and the underlying dataset the report is reliant on. This same principle applies to reports requested directly through the user interface - a request that may take several seconds or minutes to generate results will require users to wait until the report has finished and becomes available. Using the API to invoke reports is no ‘quicker’ than the same requests done directly from within the application.

Programmatic invocation of study reports however may cause a large number of requests to queue up over time. As all report requests are processed sequentially, it’s possible that use of the API to retrieve reports would queue ahead of reports requested through the user interface. Depending on time of day and frequency of requests, these may have impacts to study operational teams who are reliant on reports retrieved through the user interface.

Swagger Interactive Documentation

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