Warning: An open report contains CalcFields or CalcFilters

Overview

When attempting to design or run a report in the Reporting Intelligence Excel add-in, the following message can be displayed

Complete text of error message is:

An open report contains CalcFields or CalcFilters, and Excel cannot execute Reporting Intelligence functions on multiple threads.  As a result, your reports may run slower until you restart Excel.

Cause

Reporting Intelligence 2019 and higher is an Excel add-in using Excel's XLL format.  This format allows Excel to utilize its faster "multi-threading" feature (a technique by which a function or formula can be calculated using several processors at the same time).

If your report contains one or more Reporting Intelligence functions which include another function or a formula as either a field or a filter...

Excel must turn off multi-threading in order to calculate that report. This can cause all Reporting Intelligence to run slower until Excel is restarted.

Resolution Process

Once you are done using a report that includes either a CalcField or a CalcFilter, close and re-start Excel.  This will re-enable Excel's multi-threading capabilities and improve the speed of Reporting Intelligence which are compatible with multi-threading.