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Legacy: This article covers legacy, project-based storage concepts on on‑prem devices. The Lumafield Platform now uses Resource Management (TB budgets) for on‑prem. See: Resource Management (On‑Prem). For cloud, see Resource Management (Cloud).
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 On-Prem 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. This limit has been defined and set as part of application development for On-Prem systems. 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. 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.
  • Read-Only Projects are 3D Projects that any org member has read 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 Project Dashboard) or automatically (by our system after automatic read-only has been turned on, starting with “least recently accessed” 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 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.