Analytica Registry Settings

This page lists registry settings used by Analytica.

Many of these settings are optional, but can be set to control some aspects of Analytica behavior.

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Lumina Decision System \ Analytica \ 4.0

• AbbrevDateFormat (REG_SZ): The format used for abbreviated-style date number format. Usually: d-MMM-yyyy
• AddLibraryDir (REG_SZ): File path that File→Add Library... opens to.
• Company (REG_SZ): Company or organization of the current Analytica license.
• EULA (REG_SZ): File containing the End User License Agreement. This is accessible from the Help menu, license dialogs.
• Expirereminddays : If your license expires, Analytica can remind you that your license may expire soon. This settings specifies the number of days prior to expiration that such warnings begin showing.
• GdiBatchLimit (REG_DWORD): Graphing performance setting. To be described later.
• Home (REG_SZ): Directory where Analytica is installed.
• InitialDir (REG_SZ): CurrentModelDirectory when you first start Analytica.
• LicenseCode (REG_SZ) : An augmented and encrypted version of your Analytica license code.
• Licensee (REG_SZ) : Name of licensed Analytica user.
• OleContainerClsid (REG_SZ): The CLSID used to identify Analytica as the application in an OLE link.
• OptimizerGuide (REG_SZ): Filename of optimizer guide (PDF file).
• Preferences.ini (REG_SZ): Analytica's start-up preference file (usually Analytica.ini).
• Solver.lic (REG_SZ): The Frontline solver license file, used by Analytica Optimizer licenses.
• SolverHost (REG_SZ): When Frontline network licenses are used, contains the name of the license server.
• SolverLicType (REG_SZ): Type of frontline optimizer solver license (1=stand alone, 2=Network/flex)
• Titlebar (REG_SZ): The pattern used in the titlebar of the Analytica application. May have wildcards that are replaced, e.g.:

%title -- Analytica® %mode%beta -- %filename

displays the title of your model, the edition (mode), whether it is a beta release, and the file name that is loaded. (to do - list full set of wild cards)

• Tutorial (REG_SZ): Filename of tutorial PDF guide.
• UserGuide (REG_SZ): Filename of Analytica user guide (PDF).
• WhatsNewBookmark (REG_SZ): The acrobat bookmark inside the Analytica User Guide that is used by the "What's new in Analytica 4.0?" link on the help menu. This link displays only if you have Acrobat exchange installed on your computer.
• WhatsNewGuide (REG_SZ) : (currently not used) When an Analytica release has a separate "What's New" PDF file, this provides a link to that file. Currently What's new is inside the User guide.

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Plugins

A list of plugin DLLs that extend Analytica functionality. These settings are usually created by the DLL by running:

 regsvr32 plugin.DLL

Each plugin contains its own subfolder. Two keys are present:

• Autoload (REG_SZ): ("True" or "False") Controls whether the plugin DLL is loaded when Analytica starts up.
• Filename (REG_SZ): A full filepath to the plugin DLL.

In addition, specific DLLs may contain DLL-specific settings. For example, the ODBC4Analytica DLL, which provides database access for Analytica Enterprise, contains these settings:

• ConnectionTimeout (REG_DWORD): Seconds to wait for a database connection before concluding that the server is not responding.
• LoginTimeout (REG_DWORD): Seconds to wait for a login authentication to a database server before giving up.

SolverEngines

Configuration info for third-party solver add-on engines used with Analytica Optimizer (such as Knitro). Each engine contains its own subfolder.

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