Options dialog - General page

This page allows a number of features that apply across the whole program to be changed.

The page is displayed when you choose Tools | Options and select the General tab.

Option	Description
Windows at Startup	None Does not open any windows on startup. Reopen Previous On startup, reopens the windows that were open when the application was closed. Open Default Workspace Opens the default workspace when the application is started again. The default workspace is set in the Explorer window.
Licence expiry date reminder	Enables the display of warning messages when the licence is within one month of its expiry date.
Prompt for confirmation before exiting	Enables the display of an "Are You Sure?" message when closing InfoWorks WS Pro.
Prompt for validation when committing version controlled items	Enables the display of validation prompts when an object is committed. Now that pre-validation can be carried out as a job by the WS Agent, these prompts may be considered unnecessary.
Use GDI+ when drawing graphs (recommended)	Uses GDI+ for graphs. High performance graphics may cause problems when printing graphs using GDI+, in which case you may want to turn off the use of GDI+. Note: Non-solid lines on graphs cannot be used when GDI+ is turned off.
Show image in background	Shows the image that is displayed by default in the InfoWorks WS Pro background.
Hide image for remote sessions	Hides the image when the session is remote. You may want to do this because the background image can slow down remote desktop sessions.
Use system theme fonts for dialogs and grids	Uses fonts defined in the system theme for dialogs, property sheets and grids.
Allow in-place renaming of objects in tree	Enables in-place renaming of objects in the Model Group window tree view. Note: InfoWorks WS Pro (or the Model Group window) may need to be closed and re-opened for changes to take effect. With this box checked, you can rename an object by highlighting it in the Model Group window, clicking it, overtyping the existing name with a new one, then pressing Enter.
Use property editor for WS network objects	If checked, the properties of an object will be displayed in the Properties window when you click a network object using the (Properties) tool. If unchecked, the properties of an object will be displayed on tabs in a dialog.
Show popup information in explorer window	If checked, a pop-up information box in the explorer window will appear as you hover on items in the model tree.
Validate demand areas when opening demand area grid	If selected, the demand areas will be validated upon opening of the demand area grid. This option is enabled by default.
Enable diagnostic tables	Enables the display of diagnostic tables with warnings such as reservoirs overtopping or emptying, convergence failures, unstable regulators, pumps operating off curve, and valves regulating below curve. If an object has multiple types of warnings in one run, each warning will have a different row in the table for each of the occurrences. This option is enabled by default.
Enable trace cache	Enables to generate a trace cache file for on-premise runs. This file has the extension IWRT2 and the same name as the IWR file. This file is used by InfoWorks WS Pro when doing pick graphs. Instead of having to go through the entire IWR file, InfoWorks WS Pro only has to retrieve the trace from the trace cache file. You can turn off the trace cache option, just in case there is a problem with it. This would mean that all runs would fail.
Enable Cloud Orchestrated Multi-runs	Enables to achieve a large increase in performance so that larger multi-runs can be processed rapidly. Refer to Cloud Multi-run Workflow for more information. This option is enabled by default.