The System preferences menu accessible to administrator accounts (Figure 1) allows you to configure Partek^® Flow^® preferencesPartek Flow preferences. These preferences generally govern the activities of other users within the Partek Flow server. They can only be viewed and configured by Administrator accounts. The preferences are subdivided into the following sections:

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Modifying preferences under the User quotas and limitations section require the User Disk Quotas enterprise license. Upon opening the system, all sections are collapsed except for Filesystem and storage (Figure 1).  

 To edit preferences, select the drop-down menu for the specific section you would like to modify. Information about specific preferences can be obtained by hovering over the  icon next to the option. Click the  icon to start editing. 

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• If Sample file directory is selected, files will be written on the same directory in which the sample files are located

• If Other is selected, a directory on the server must be specified to which the project output files will be written

• The user can override this setting by specifying the output directory in the project’s Data tab after at least one sample has been created

• If Enforced private directory is selected, files will be written on the user's private directory. The alternative folder specified after else will be used if no private directory is assigned to a user.

Store file-path symbolic links

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Task queue and job processing

 Start Internal worker at Partek Flow server startup

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• If Yes is selected, Partek Flow will email admins (Figure 3) if a running task has a remaining runtime longer than the specified days and adding more workers could speed up the task

Subject: [Hosted Partek Flow] Task T20160624142412218_000000 has a predicted remaining runtime longer than 1 day 

Dear Partek Flow administrator,

Flow has detected that a Quantify to annotation model (Partek E/M) task, with identifier 

T20160624142412218_000000, in project RNASeq of 5-aza treated HT29 has a predicted remaining 

runtime longer than 1 day and would benefit if additional workers were added. 

If no additional workers are added, the current predicted end time for the task is 25 Jun 2016, 04:28 PM CDT.

User quotas and limitations

 Only administrators can manage library files 

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• Specifies the actions when user reaches 80% of their disk quota

• An email can be sent to the user and/or the administrators (Figure 5)

• The user can also be prevented from importing additional samples and running tasks until they clear additional space

Subject: [Hosted Partek Flow] Disk usage is over 80% of John Smith's quota in Partek Flow 

Dear Partek Flow administrator,

John Smith's disk usage is 86.11 GB and quota is 100.00 GB in Partek Flow (http://... ).  

He/she has been asked to dissociate unwanted files from samples and delete unwanted task output files, tasks, and projects. 

You may also want to increase his/her disk quota.

Actions at 100% of disk quota (requires enterprise license) 

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• Specifies the actions when user reaches their disk quota

• An email can be sent to the user and/or the administrators (similar to Figure 5)

• The user can also be prevented from importing additional samples and running tasks until they clear additional space

Authentication settings

Days for user to set password

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These settings allow Administrators to use the embedded email server within Partek Flow. Select the checkbox to configure mail server (Figure 7). 

Email users on transfer of project ownership

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• If the Email users on creation checkbox is selected, new Partek Flow users will receive an email with a link to set their password within Partek Flow. The email will include this extra text, which may have URLs in it. This setting does not affect user accounts that come from LDAP, because these accounts use the password stored in LDAP, not in Partek Flow

General preferences

Data table decimal precision

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• Specifies the number of decimal places displayed

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