Chapter 30. Customizing project preferences

Procedure

1. In Business Central, select the Admin icon in the upper-right corner and select Projects.

2. In the Project Preferences panel, select the preference you want to modify. The project preferences include:

   • Project Importing: This preference consists of the following property:

     • Select the Allow multiple projects to be imported on cluster to import multiple projects on a cluster.

   • File exporting: This preference consists of the following properties:

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     Table 30.1. File exporting properties

     Field	Description
     PDF orientation	Determines whether the PDF orientation is portrait or landscape.
     PDF units	Determines whether the PDF unit is PT, MM, CN, or IN.
     PDF page format	Determines whether the PDF page format is A[0-10], B[0-10], or C[0-10].

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   • Spaces: This preference consists of the following properties:

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     Table 30.2. Spaces properties

     Field	Description
     Name	The default name of the space that is created automatically if none exists.
     Owner	The default owner of the space that is created automatically if none exists.
     Group ID	The default group ID of the space that is created automatically if none exists.
     Alias (in singular)	Determines the customized alias (singular) of the space.
     Alias (in plural)	Determines the customized alias (plural) of the space.

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   • Default values: This preference consists of the following properties:

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     Table 30.3. Default values properties

     Field	Description
     Version	The default version number of a project when creating projects.
     Description	The default description of a project when creating projects.
     Branch	The default branch to be used when using a Git repository.
     Assets Per Page	Used to customize the number of assets per page in the project. The default value is 15.

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   • Advanced GAV preferences: This preference consists of the following properties:

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     Table 30.4. Advanced GAV preference properties

     Field	Description
     Disable GAV conflict check?	Determines whether to enable or disable the GAV conflict check. Disabling this checkbox enables the projects to contain the same GAV (group ID, artifact, and version).
     Allow child GAV edition?	Determines whether to allow child or subprojects to contain GAV edition.

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     Note

     Duplicate GAV detection is disabled for projects in the development mode. To enable duplicate GAV detection for a project in Business Central, go to project Settings General Settings Version and toggle the Development Mode option to OFF (if applicable).

3. Click Save.