Administration Menu

Administration Menu

The 

menu is on the top right, on the header bar at the top of the PhixFlow window.

The options that are available in the 

 menu depend upon your privileges. Administrators configure privileges in roles; see Managing User Groups and Privileges.

The order of the below Administration options depend on your PhixFlow version. The below order is reflective of PhixFlow v12.1+.

The menu has the following options:

Option

Description

Option

Description

The system console provides details on:

  • active and completed tasks

  • files imported and exported by PhixFlow

  • audit trail of changes made to PhixFlow's configuration

Make copies of items. Copied items are added to the repository with a numbered suffix, for example _2, _3.

Open the download area, where export zip files are temporarily stored; see Using the Download Area and Configuring the Download Area.

Options for exporting from the current instance.

Open a window where you can select the applications or packages that you want to export. Export Configuration.

Open a  window where you can select the table data that you want to export; see Export Application Data.

Options for importing to the current instance.

Open a file browser to select applications or packages that have previously been exported from another PhixFlow instance and import them into the current PhixFlow instance; see Import Configuration

Import table data previously exported from another PhixFlow instance; see Import Application Data

Logging options

Open a window where you can specify server-side log files to download as a zip file; see Downloading Server Log Files

Create and download an Excel file containing a snapshot of the currently running processes. This provides useful information when troubleshooting problems.

Available in PhixFlow v12 and older

Restoration options

Restores applications from a 

.

Restores packages from a

Available in PhixFlow v12.1+

Snapshot and restoration options

Take a copy of an Application or Package and save to a

Restore an Application or Package from a 

Support

Support options

Open an email message addressed to support@phixflow.com, if your computer is configured to do this.

Open a browser window into PhixFlow's online support desk. Your designated support contacts will have the login details.

Display general information about your PhixFlow installation, such as the current version of the software.

System options

Open the System Configuration panel, to check or change settings

Open the system logging panel, to check or change settings.

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Additional options

Update PhixFlow's database with all the current table data.

If there are tables that have previously failed to publish, PhixFlow will attempt to publish their data to the database; see Import Configuration and Publishing Tables.

Show an object in the repository using the reference provided in an error message. The reference will be in the form:
Type-Id e.g. Package-cd29a26a811e426ebb5037c44fb6bcc4

Release the exclusion group from its current use and allow actions and task plans with the same exclusion group to run concurrently. See Exclusion Groups.