Error when generating report - work order activity report (pdf)
There are a couple of reasons of why this happens.
Most common problem: you are generating a report for multiple work orders which has too many assets. In the end, the browser will need to generate too many pdf pages (eg. thousands) which is not possible due to the timeout.
Example calculation
Note: this applies for the work order activity (pdf) report only!
Here, you are trying to generate a report for 60 work orders.
Each work order contains from 1,400 up to 14,000 assets.
Roughly, on avarage, you are trying to print (1400+14000)÷ 2 = 7,700 assets per work order.
There will be 60 work orders x 7,700 = 462,000 assets in total.
1 work order contains:
work order summary: 1 page
total progress by asset type:
number of asset type in that work order ÷ 13 page
total progress by area:
number of area in that work order ÷ 13 page
Event timeline + Maintenance task check list: 0.5 page
Asset maintenance data:
total asset in that work order ÷ 18 page
For 1 work order:
For 7,700 assets in 1 work order, you could potentially generate approximate about 430 pages of pdf file or more!
(1+1+1+0.5+7700/18 = 430 pages)
For 60 work orders:
Now, imaging if you create up to 60 work orders…you could end up with 430x60 = 25,800 pages in total. This is too much for any browser to handle!
What is the limit then?
We did not set a limit in our software because don’t want to put restrictions on the users.
However, according to ChatGPT (these are just general guidelines)
"the limit actually depends on your browser and the time out.
How Many Pages Can Chrome Handle?
Safe Zone: Up to 500 pages for most systems.
High-End Systems: A few thousand pages (1,000–2,000 pages) if pages are lightweight.
Risky: 10,000+ pages is likely to result in instability or crashes unless the web content is extremely simple and resources are abundant."
Recommendation
Reduce the number of work orders that you want to generate. If you have too many assets in your work orders then it would be more practical to just print only 1 or a few work orders only.
Check out our other report templates to see other possibilities
In the end, it’s more about the purpose of your report. Is it practical to print out 10k pages of report to read?