The Control page provides access to the Cascade and Clean utilities. Generally, the Cascade and the Clean utilities will run automatically; however, if they are not being run automatically for any reason, they can be run manually from the Control page.

The Cascade utility can be used to manually start the standard Cascade function, using default values, when the Cascade function is not being executed automatically.

The Cascade function is used by Freedombase in order to automatically cascade related data updates; for example, instead of a programmer writing a program to update a customer's balance when a new invoice is created, if the correct Derivation is set against the Balance attribute in the Customer Class, Freedombase will understand when the customer's balance needs to be updated, and will update it automatically using the Cascade function the next time the Cascade function is executed. Please see the FBCASCADE command in the Command Help page for more details on the Cascade function.

The Clean utility can be used to manually start the standard Clean function, when the Clean function is not being executed automatically.

Freedombase uses temporary or working Classes to store information; that information needs to be cleaned out periodically, in order to maintain a high level of performance. The Clean utility cleans redundant information out of those temporary or working Classes. Please see the FBCLEAN command in the Command Help page for more details on the Clean function.