Site Administration

Once you are logged into VIVO, you will notice in the upper right hand portion of the page links to "Index" and "Site Admin", alongside a drop-down menu with your name on it, and containing links to "My account" and "Log out".

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Dump or restore the knowledge base  – dump or restore configuration models or content models

Site Maintenance

Rebuild search index  – in some situations, you may need to rebuild the SOLR search index.  See Inferences and Indexing

Rebuild visualization cache –  Large-scale visualizations like the Temporal Graph or the Map of Science involve calculating total counts of publications or of grants for some entity. Since thismeans checking also through all of its sub-entities, the underlying queries can be both memory-intensive and time-consuming. For a faster user experience, we wish to save the results of these queries for later re-use.  To this end we have devised a caching solution which will retain information about the hierarchy of organizations-namely, which publications are attributed to which organizations-by storing the RDF model. We're currently caching these models in memory. The cache is built (only once) on the first user request after a server restart. Because of this, the same model will be served until the next restart. This means that the data in these models may become stale depending upon when it was last created. To avoid restarting the server in order to refresh the cache, administrators can use the Rebuild visualization cache link. This works well enough for now. In future releases we will improve this solution so that models are stored on disk and periodically updated.

Recompute inferences  – in some cases, you may wish to recompute the inferences in VIVO.  See Inferences and Indexing

Startup status  – shows the messages that were produced during VIVO startup.

Restrict logins  – toggles user login.  When logins are restricted, only the root user may login

Activate Developer panel  – Shows the developer panel from which additional debugging information is available.  See Tips for Interface Developers