Customer Name         

This field is read-only. PhixFlow displays the customer name that was set in the PhixFlow database during system installation.

PhixFlow Instance

After changing this field you will need to restart the browser or reload the application (User → Reload Application) to see the new value in the banner.

Default Export Excel Version

System Locale

Select the default locale to use for the PhixFlow system.

You can set a different locale for users.

Default Component Palette

Select a default layout component palette.

Default Template Package

Select a default template package. Applications created without a selected template package will use this value for the new application.

Decimal Places

Suppress Trailing Zeroes

This setting can be over-ridden using a Number Format.

Default Date Format

From PhixFlow version 11+, this section has moved to the

Default Date/Time Format

From PhixFlow version 11+, this section has moved to the

Allow access to data by default

Specifies the default data access permission on new tables. Possible values are:

• "T" - By default, all users will be allowed access to the table data.

• "F" - By default, no users will be allowed access to the table data unless they are a member of a user group which is explicitly added to the table.

Note that this is just a default behaviour as any user with the permission to add user groups to a table may change the data access rights for a table.

Notification Timeout (s)

Specify how long, in seconds, PhixFlow should display the popup notifications before closing them automatically.

File Download Expiry 

Specify how long files remain available in the File Download Location before they are deleted. Specify the time using one or more of:

• days: nd

• hours: nh

• minutes: nm

• seconds: ns

where n is the number you require. Separate 2 or more time units with a space.

If you do not specify the time by d, h, m or s, PhixFlow defaults to the entered value as hours.

Help Url

The base URL for PhixFlow help. This is pre-set for each PhixFlow release, and should not be changed without consulting PhixFlow support.

Online Support Url

The URL to open when the user requests online support through PhixFlow. Under normal circumstances you should not need to update this setting. If you have problem with PhixFlow help, please contact the PhixFlow support team (see the Support Home for contact details).

After changing this field you will need to restart the browser or reload the application (User → Reload Application) to start using the new help location.

System Email Address

Specify the email address from which system-generated mails will be sent, such as password reset requests.  For example, create an email account for notifications@company.com and use it as the System Email Address.

Feedback Email Address

Specify an email address to receive any feedback emails.  These are sent from the Administration → Support Menu → Email Support option. We recommend that this email address is your onsite system administration email. Issues that cannot be resolved internally should then be forwarded to support@phixflow.com.

Error Reporting Email Address

Specify an email address to receive emails sent when a user clicks the Report button on a system error message. We recommend that this is set to an onsite system administration. Issues that cannot be resolved internally should then be forwarded to support@phixflow.com.

Only allow users with the restricted login permission to log in

Use this option when you need maintain or upgrade PhixFlow and you need to prevent any users from logging in; see Restricting Access During System Maintenance.

Remember to untick this option when maintenance is complete.

Only allow restricted task plan run permission users

Use this option when you need maintain or upgrade PhixFlow and you need to prevent processes from running; see Restricting Access During System Maintenance.

• analysis on models

• task plans

• any table-actions

• rollback.

Scheduled task plans will not run, although the Suspended tick box will not be ticked on individual task plans.

Remember to untick this option when maintenance is complete.

Note: Any scheduled task plan that attempts to run and is prevented appears in the System Console console as a warning.

Suspend processing for non admin users

Suspend processing for all users except those in the administrators group. Non-admin users will be prevented from running analysis, task plans, table-actions and rollback. Scheduled task plans will also be suspended (but the suspended box will not be ticked on individual task plans).

Allow access to run actions by default

If ticked, by default all users will have access to run actions (providing they have functional rights to run actions), unless this is overridden at the level of individual actions.

Home Screen Message HTML

Enter and format a message which is displayed to users when they log in; see Configuring a Login Message.

Banner Colour

Use the colour picker to select a colour for the menu bar at the top of the screen.

Plugin Location    

Enter the path to a directory for any PhixFlow plugin applications.

Application Location

Enter the path to a directory for the PhixFlow installation.

Import File Location

Enter the path to a root directory for files to be imported into PhixFlow. This directory is used as the default location. This field can be left blank. See File Collectors for further details.

Export File Location

Enter the path to a root directory for files to be exported from PhixFlow. This directory is used as the default location. This field can be left blank. See File Exporters for further details.

Template Location

Enter the path to a directory for the templates that PhixFlow uses when creating Microsoft Excel file downloads.

Temporary File Location

Enter the path to a directory where PhixFlow can save temporary files that it generates.

Performance File Location

Deprecated. This directory is no longer used by any feature.

In previous versions, this was where PhixFlow stored performance analysis files.

Archive Directory

This directory is used when Archive deleted log messages to file is ticked.

Enter the path to a root directory where log messages can be archived. This directory is used as the default location. This field can be left blank. 

Restore Directory

Enter the path to a root directory from which data can be restored. This directory is used as the default location. This field can be left blank.

Restricted Directory

Read-only.  PhixFlow displays the directory path that is set in the PhixFlow database.

For security reasons, we recommend that you configure a restricted directory so that Phixflow only reads data from the restricted directory. 

Database Driver File Directory

Read-only. PhixFlow displays the directory path that is set in the PhixFlow database. Use this directory to store driver jar files to enable PhixFlow to communicate with different databases. To avoid your files being overwritten during Tomcat or PhixFlow upgrades, we recommend that you specify a directory outside of tomcat. For example:

• Linux:  /opt/phixflow-drivers

• Windows:  C:\opt\phixflow-drivers

See also Database Driver.

If the Restricted Directory is set, this directory does not need to be within the restricted directory.

File Upload Directory

Enter the path to a root directory where PhixFlow stores all loaded files, for example from file collectors, and received email messages.

Loaded files and processed emails are saved in standard sub-directories as follows:

.../tag/in/yyyymmdd/uid/

where

• tag is the file collector tag or the #tag extracted from an email subject line, or default

• yyyymmdd is the date the files were uploaded / received

• uid is a 32 character unique identifier.

For each email message received, the folder has:

• a file called body.txt, containing the main body content of the email

• any email attachment files.

Download Location 

The download area is where PhixFlow saves files generated by analysis models or actions in applications. These are CSV or Excel files. Users can download the files from this area. To ensure data security, the files are encrypted and are deleted after a period of time; see File Download Expiry. 

Thread Pool Size       

Only change this option with advice from PhixFlow support.

The number of threads that can be in the pool at any time. This is an advanced option which should not be updated without advice from the PhixFlow support team. This is generally a small multiple of the number of CPU cores on your machine.

Database Flush Size

Only change this option with advice from PhixFlow support.

How frequently objects are written to disc. 

This sets the default Commit Size for newly created Database Exporters (Advanced section) . If no value is provided the default Commit Size is 2000.

Result Expiry Time (sec)

Only change this option with advice from PhixFlow support.

The length of time the PhixFlow front end application will wait for a result from an asynchronous query before abandoning it. 

Default Page Size

Only change this option with advice from PhixFlow support.

The default number of rows to be loaded into to a grid when displayed in PhixFlow. 

After changing this field you will need to restart the browser or reload the application (User → Reload Application) to apply the new default page size.

Default Buffer Size

Only change this option with advice from PhixFlow support.

When reading in data from a collector, how many rows are held in memory before passing them on for processing. This means that if PhixFlow is reading in 10,000,000 records, it doesn't have to wait until all have been loaded before it begins to process them, but can begin processing after the first 2000 have been read. 

Delete Batch Size

Only change this option with advice from PhixFlow support.

Defines the default number of rows to be deleted from a table in a single transaction when archiving or rolling back data.

Write Processes Per Recordset

Only change this option with advice from PhixFlow support.

Enables PhixFlow to multi-thread the process of writing table data to the database. The value of this parameter is dependent upon machine versus database performance.

Maximum Records Per Download File

This value affects how much data a user can export to a single Excel or CSV file using the

Specify the largest number of data records that a user can downloaded to a single file. Downloads with more than this number of records will be split into multiple files which are zipped together.

Default Download File Limit

This value affects how much total data a user can export to Excel or CSV files using the

Specify the maximum number of records that a user can download. PhixFlow creates a file with this many records. Additional records will be ignored.  If no value is specified, PhixFlow applies no limit to the number of records that a user can download. 

For table data, you can override this value using the table properties in the Download Limits section.

Validate attribute exists at runtime

Specifies whether or not PhixFlow should check that an attribute exists when a model attempts to read the value of an attribute from a record or a record supplied by a collector.

Inactivity Time (sec)

The amount of time (in seconds) that must pass after a user operation before the PhixFlow client application will start any background clean-up processes.

Maximum File Size Attachment (MB)

Outgoing emails will only attach files (zipped or unzipped) that do not exceed this size limit. An extra message will appear in the email's message subject/body indicating to the recipient that a file attachment has been removed due to this size restriction.

If left blank, PhixFlow does not restrict the file size of attachments. However, the email servers will determine whether or not the message is sent/received correctly.

Maximum Pivot Columns

The system-wide default for the maximum number of columns that can be generated by a pivot table. This applies unless a different maximum pivot columns setting is applied for an individual view.

Maximum Exporters Errors

The maximum number of errors found before exporters will stop attempting to export records.

This is useful where you process large number of records and do not want to wait until all records are processed in case of errors occurred. This value can be overridden in the properties for (database, file and HTTP) exporters.

Log Statistics

Statistics Period

The period (in seconds) over which performance statics are aggregated, over which snapshots of values are taken.

Delete Statistics after Days

Also see Task Plans and Processing Statistics.

Enforce Pipe Cache Size

Default Pipe Cache Size

The default cache size for a pipe, when it has not been set on the pipe.

Maximum Pipe Cache Size

The maximum cache size that can be set on a pipe. A pipe with a cache size greater than this will cause an error during an analysis run.

Enforce In Memory Cache Size

Default In Memory Cache Size

The default cache size for an in-memory table, when it has not been set on the table.

Maximum In Memory Cache Size

The maximum cache size that can be set on an in-memory table. A table with a cache size greater than this will cause an error during an analysis run.

Maximum Bigstring Size

Maximum Parallel File Exporters

The maximum number of non-Excel files that may be generated at the same time. This includes files generated:

• by file exporters

• from a grid view.

Requests above this limit will be queued. This value defaults to the value of Thread Pool Size.

Maximum Parallel Excel Exporters

The maximum number of Excel files that may be generated at the same time.

This includes files generated:

• by file exporters

• from a grid view.

Requests above this limit will be queued. The default value is 1.

Maximum Parallel HTTP Actions

(available in PhixFlow version 11.2+)

The maximum number of parallel HTTP requests that can be sent at the same time. This is for Actionflows only.

Requests above this limit will be queued. This value defaults to the value of Thread Pool Size.

DTO Building Thread Pool Size

Only change this option with advice from PhixFlow support.

When you restart the server, PhixFlow rebuilds recently-used object caches (DTOs). Specify the number of DTOs that can be generated at the same time. This number may affect how quickly PhixFlow is able to restart. 

See also Advanced → Delete DTO Usage Records after Days, below. 

Default Character Set

Enter the character set PhixFlow assumes when reading from or writing to any plain text or CSV file.

Data Storage Group

Enter the data storage group to use when creating tables to store table data. This field is interpreted differently depending on the underlying database:

• On Oracle, a data storage group is equivalent to a Tablespace.

• On SQL Server, a Data Storage Group is equivalent to a Filegroup.

• MySQL does not support data storage groups.

• If you use the unsupported MySQL, a data storage group is equivalent to a Tablespace.

If no Data Storage Group is specified, the database user's default setting will be used. Ensure the database user has sufficient privileges.

Line Separator Style

Select the default line separator style that will be used by file exporters where no particular line separator has been specified. If you do not specify a default line separator here, PhixFlow will use the default of the operating system.