Customizing Your Preferences

The My Preferences option allows Agents, administrators, and customers (if they have been configured to have access to preferences) to customize their Homepages, and set other personal preferences.  Users can change their email addresses, passwords, security options, Homepage list preferences, and more.

NOTE

Customers do not have access to all of the preferences available to Agents and administrators.

To change your preferences, click My Preferences on the FootPrints Toolbar.

The available options are:

• Personal Info—Change your display name, email address, default Project, and more.
• Issue Preferences—Options for creating and editing Issues.
• Homepage Preferences—Define the list of Issues and columns displayed on yourFootPrints Homepage.
• FootPrints Dashboard Components—Define the dashboard components that appear at the top of the main frame on your FootPrints Homepage.
• Appearance Preferences—Define the appearance of data in FootPrints, including dates, local time, and language.
• Security Preferences—Security options.
• Misc. Preferences—Other personal preferences.

Note

Most options apply to FootPrints system-wide, with the exception of Homepage Preferencesand the security option to Require Password for Issues, which are chosen on a per-Project basis.  If a user belongs to multiple Projects, it is possible to display different list preferences for each Project.