Setting system performance
Introduced in 2025
The General > System Performance section allows you to view the status of the full-text search functionality, define the maximum file size users can attach to Alloy Navigator objects, and configure how unavailable workflow actions are displayed in the user interface.
Full-Text Search
Full-text search is always enabled in Alloy Navigator, provided that your Microsoft SQL Server installation includes the Full-Text Search component. This feature allows Alloy Navigator to perform high-speed and linguistically intelligent searches across supported text fields, delivering faster and more relevant search results.
INFO: For details on the full-text search functionality, see Microsoft documentation, for example, Full-Text Search.
Click here to view the list of If your Microsoft SQL Server installation does not include the Full-Text Search component, the feature will be unavailable, and a corresponding warning will be displayed.
Attachments
On-Prem only
Attachments are stored in your database, and large files attached to Alloy Navigator objects may significantly increase the database size and slow down your Alloy Navigator. By default, the system applies a limit to the maximum attachment size.
If you use Alloy Navigator on-premises, you can adjust this limit: lower it, increase it, or disable it entirely.
FORÂ CLOUD CUSTOMERS: If you are using Alloy Navigator in the cloud, the attachment size is limited to 25 MB to maintain an efficient database size and ensure stable, high performance. Because this limit is predefined and cannot be changed, the System Performance page in your Admin Center does not display the Attachments section. For details, see Installation Guide: Alloy Navigator Cloud (SaaS).
The limit applies to all attachments, no matter whether the object was created manually or automatically. Specifically, when the Mail Connector encounters an incoming e-mail message with a large attachment, it will not attach that large file to the Alloy Navigator object but add a text file explaining that the message attachment has not been loaded due to exceeding the limit.
To limit the size of attachments:
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Select the Limit attachment size check box and specify the limit in MB.
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Click Save.
To remove the size limitation:
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Clear the Limit attachment size checkbox.
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Click Save.
IMPORTANT: Removing the attachment size limitation is not recommended, as it can lead to significant database growth and may impact system performance. Please consider the potential effects before changing this setting.
Workflow Action Display
The availability of workflow Step Actions is controlled by the user's security roles, the object’s type, and the object's status. In addition, some Steps may have additional criteria that control when the Step is available.
NOTE: You manage the availability of a Step on the Condition tab of the Step [ID] window. For details, see Configuring Steps.
Depending on the type of the object and effective permissions of the current user, some of the Steps are unavailable, and Alloy Navigator does not display commands for those Steps to the user. At the same time, some of available Steps may be disabled due to the status of the current object and/or the additional criteria.
Under Workflow action display, you can specify whether to display dimmed commands for disabled Step Actions in the Actions menu and the Action Bar or hide those commands from users.
NOTE: The Workflow action display option does not affect the visibility of Step Actions controlled by the user's security roles or the object's type.
To hide unavailable Step Actions from users:
To display unavailable Step Actions as disabled (dimmed):
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Click Show all actions, dim unavailable ones.
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Click Save.
For your changes to take effect, you and other users must restart the Desktop App and start a new Web App session.