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An administrator can set a number of Flow configuration preferences that affect the interface and user experience.

  1. From the Home page, select System Maintenance Tools > Preferences/ System ResetConfiguration. 
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  2. In the Configuration Keys Preferences section, select a configuration key from the list.
  3. Assign that configuration key a different value than the default value as defined in the following table.
  4. Click update config key.
Sets the character limit for candidate on-air insight text.
Configuration KeyDescriptionCandidate Short Info Limit

Default: 255 characters

Election Top Level Region Used to denote Name

Currently Unused.  Denoted the highest level of the election hierarchy.

Auto-Refresh: Riding Results SummaryThe number of seconds waited before refreshing the Riding Results Summary page.
Auto-Refresh: Interesting Events Widget RefreshThe number of seconds waited before refreshing the Interesting Events widget.
National Preview RefreshAuto-Refresh: Overall Race Module

Sets how often the Election Day Race Status graph is refreshed (in

minutes

seconds).

Default:

3 minutes

60 seconds

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Riding National RefreshAuto-Refresh: Riding Preview Module Overall Graphs

Sets how often the Election Day Seat Count and Vote Percentage graphs are refreshed (in minutesseconds) in both the Race Status and the Election Status modules.

Default: 2 minutes60 seconds

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Auto-Refresh: Riding Preview RefreshModule

Sets how often the data in the

Election Status

Riding Results Detail module is refreshed (in minutes) on Election Day.

When this configuration key and the Riding National Refresh key (above) are set to the same value, all data in the Election Status module refreshes together in synchronization.

Default:

5

2 minutes

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Interest Events RefreshSets how often the Election Day Candidates of Interest module in Flow is refreshed (in minutes)Auto-Refresh: Interesting Events Module

Determines the refresh rate of the Interesting Events module in seconds.

Default: 2 minutes120 seconds

Enable Riding Data Source Control

On Election Day, you can mix automated data with manually entered content to provide a rich election experience for your viewers.

Specifies whether Flow users can toggle between automatic and manual Election Day party standings data updates.

  • When true: Users can enable Flow to accept manual data updates for party standings.
  • When false: Flow and all ridings are set to automated data updates only for party standings.

Default: false

Home Interesting Events Refresh

Sets how often the Interesting Events list is refreshed (in seconds) on the Flow Home page.

Default: 60 seconds

Site Name

The human-readable name of the site. This value is typically set with Election information. This information is visible in the top-left corner of every Flow page.

Default: BL Flow

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Backup Command Path Name

Specifies the path to the MySQL backup tool that Flow may use when performing system backups.

Default: C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin

Max Audit Text Field Length

Sets the maximum character length of long audit messages in previews only. Report exports show full text with no truncation.

Default: 150 System > Max Display Length of Audit Messages

If audit messages exceed this value they will be truncated to fit for display in Flow Audit Reports. The full details are still available when exported.

Default: 255 characters


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