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The Lumafield platform is designed to empower teams to scan as much as they need. In order to provide this, we have introduced some key concepts related to storage and project management. Working with these concepts allows your team to understand what your storage requirements are, and if necessary, adjust your approach to cloud project management.

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How is storage limited?

Your organization has an “Active Project Limit” defined by the number of active projects your organization has purchased. Your organization also has an “Inactive Project Limit”. These limits have been defined and set as part of application development for cloud systems, and can be expanded at any point. An Active Project is a 3D project with a full CT scan and Reconstruction wherein new analyses and data can be authored. When a scan has completed, an Active Project is the result of that scan. These projects support the creation of new data via Recipe or via usage of Voyager tools. An Inactive Project is a 3D project with a full CT scan and Reconstruction that is in storage. New analyses and data can be created after the project is re-activated at which point the project will become active again. This re-activation takes less than 24 hours to complete, at which point recipes and analyses can be run on this data to create new results. A Read-Only Project is a 3D project with a full CT scan and Reconstruction wherein new analyses and data can no longer be authored. The full set of resulting analyses, data objects, meshes, bookmarks, etc. are all included in a read-only project. This means a read-only project can be thought of as a project that has been “processed”, but is still fully available for anyone to access at any time in the future. The only limitation is the inability to create new data. Active Projects can be Pinned in order to keep them permanently active. The number of pinned projects within your organization cannot exceed your Active Project Limit.  In Summary:
  • Your organization has an Active Project Limit
  • Active Projects are 3D projects that editors have read / write access to.
  • Inactive Projects are 3D projects in waiting that can be re-activated at any time.
  • Read-Only projects are 3D projects that any org member has read only access to.
  • Pinned projects are active projects that remain active and cannot be made read-only.
It is worth noting that non-3D projects, such as single radiograph captures or mesh-based projects are not counted towards your Active Project Limit. These projects do not have an indicator on their project tile. 

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How do Projects become Read-Only?

Active Projects become read-only in one of two ways, either manually (one by one by a human using the right click menu of the dashboard) or automatically (by our system after automatic read-only has been turned on, starting with “least recently accessed inactive project” first). Lumafield understands that managing your Active Project Limit can be challenging if you are scanning at high volumes. In addition, it is frustrating to accidentally set a project to read-only if you are still actively analyzing and working with that data. Because of this, organizations have the option to manage their data either manually or automatically. Each organization manager has access to enable and disable automatic read-only functionality. When automatic read-only is enabled, a warning screen will show to confirm to the manager that enabling automatic read-only will automatically convert some projects in their organization to read-only. Otherwise, it is up to each organization to manually set projects that are not in use to read-only. No project will be made read-only automatically if automatic read-only is turned off. As mentioned above, Lumafield offers Unlimited Read-Only projects, and we recommend enabling automatic read-only, or purchasing more storage if you wish to keep large numbers of Active or Inactive 3D projects.

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Conclusion

Using the Lumafield Platform, you can easily manage and organize your projects according to your needs. Full CT scans become Active Projects initially, and these projects can be Pinned to keep them active or set to Read-Only to save them as records. Voyager Managers can enable or disable Automatic Read-Only for their organization, and everyone across a Voyager Organization can easily inspect the status of a project and the overall storage usage of the Organization.