My Changes Did Not Apply
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Please note that when you make changes to settings at GridRepublic (ex selecting a new "Resource Share" for a project), it is neccessary to click the "Apply" button to submit your change.

Also, please be aware that changes made at the website take time to propagate to your desktop applications.

Further details are below.

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Changes to Project List and General Preferences

Propagation Time

Changes to your list of projects, and changes to general preferences will typically propagate to your desktop computers in an a couple hours (assuming the desktop computers are on and at least occasionally running GridRepublic).

Manual Update

If you don't want to wait, you can manually update your desktop application, causing it to pick up changes immediately. To do this

  • Open your desktop application
  • Click the "Advanced View" button in the lower right, if shown
  • In the menubar at the top of your screen select Tools > Synchronize with GridRepublic.
  • Note: this will update your project list and general preferences only; it will not update project-specific preferences such as resource share, newsletter, or show computers; for these these project-specific preferences we have as yet no manual update. (05/16/2008)
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Changes to Resource Share, Newsletter, and Show Computer Settings

Propagation Time

At present these project-specific settings take longer to propagate. Here's how it works:
Projects send out work in small chunks which are called "work units" (these are the "tasks" listed under the "tasks" tab in the desktop application). Your desktop application gets its new project-specific settings (ex Resource Share, Newsletter, Show Computers) for each project when it completes the current work unit for that project and contacts the server to get a new work unit. So depending on the project, this can be a few minutes or it can be a day or so, or more. (The time depends also of course on your machine and how much time it is available for Volunteer Computing.)

Manual Updates

At present, the overall "Synchonize with GridRepublic" function described above will not update project-specific settings (ex Resource Share, Newsletter, Show Computers). In the future it will; but for now, the manual update process is a bit more tedious:

  • Open your desktop application
  • Click the "Advanced View" button in the lower right, if shown
  • Click on the "projects" tab, if this is not already the active tab
  • Then, click each project and click the "update" button for each one.

World Community Grid

Please note that, at present, World Community Grid does not support remote management of project preferences (ex Resource Share, Newsletter, Show Computers). More about managing preferences at World Community Grid.

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