An administrator can set a number of Flow configuration preferences that affect the interface and user experience. - From the Home page, select System Maintenance > Preferences/System Reset.
 - In the Configuration Keys section, select a configuration key from the list.
- Assign that configuration key a different value than the default value as defined in the following table.
- Click update config key.
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| Candidate Short Info Limit | Sets the character limit for candidate on-air insight text. Default: 255 characters | | National Preview Refresh | Sets how often the Election Day Race Status graph is refreshed (in minutes). Default: 3 minutes | Expand |
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| | Riding National Refresh | Sets how often the Election Day Seat Count and Vote Percentage graphs are refreshed (in minutes) on both the Race Status and the Election Status pages. Default: 2 minutes | Expand |
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| | Riding Preview Refresh | Sets how often the data on the Election Status page 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 on the Election Status page refreshes together in synchronization. Default: 5 minutes | Expand |
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| | Interest Events Refresh | Sets how often the Election Day Candidates of Interest page in Flow is refreshed (in minutes). Default: 2 minutes | | 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 | | Next Up Playlist Item Refresh | Sets how often the Next Up Playlist Item list is refreshed (in seconds). Default: 30 seconds | | Next up Secondary Refresh | Sets how often the following data is refreshed (in seconds): - Next Up Interesting Events
- Seats Graph
Default: 90 seconds | | 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. Typically set to the Election & Election Date. This information is visible in the top-left corner of every Flow page. Default: BL Flow | | 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 characters |
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