Project Settings

In this article

• Access Project Settings
• Project Settings dialog

Making customizations at a company level that work for each project in every situation is difficult at best. Guardian’s Project Settings allow you to make file-specific overrides to your Project Configurations. These settings give you the flexibility to customize Guardian’s behavior for individual file needs.

By default, projects will adopt the company Project Configuration when registered. The settings for each individual project can be overwritten through the Project Settings. This puts Guardian's controls in the hands of your model managers.

It is important to note that once the settings for a project are overwritten, the settings for that project will no longer be affected by changes made to the applied Project Configuration.

Pro Tip: Project Settings automatically adopt the Project Configuration settings when the project model is registered. Set the Project Configurations to the desired level of Guardian protections to be applied to all project models from the start.  

Access Project Settings

Project Settings can be accessed by Company or Project Administrators through the Project Settings button in the Guardian ribbon.

Project Settings can also be accessed from the Projects dialog by selecting the Project Configuration button.

Additionally, the Project Settings of files that aren't open can be accessed by selecting a project in the list and clicking the applied Project Configuration.

Pro Tip: From the Projects dialog, multi-select models to edit the Project Settings of multiple models simultaneously. Many projects are made up of multiple models, and this will allow the settings to be established consistently across all project models.  

Project Settings dialog

When you open the dialog, you will see four familiar tabs: ‍

• ‍Custom Interactions
• User Commands
• Transactions
• Sync Properties^TM

The active Project Configuration name will be displayed at the top. You can quickly switch Project Configurations by clicking the Project Configuration name (A).

In each of these tabs, settings that have been modified will appear blue (B). These can be settings that have been overwritten or ones where the Project Configuration was changed after the Project Settings were disconnected.

Manage Overrides

The Project Settings can be restored/reconnected to the applied Project Configuration using the Remove Overrides (C) dropdown. There are three options when managing overrides:

• ‍Remove Overrides: Returns settings to the original Project Configuration values.‍
• Update Configuration: Pushes your override changes to the Project Configuration, affecting all files using that configuration.‍
• Create New Configuration: Generates a new Project Configuration based on your overrides.

Edit Password

The password for Prevent commands can be made unique for each project by selecting the Edit Password (D) button. Changing this password will also cause the Project Settings to be overwritten and disconnected from the applied Project Configuration.

Pro Tip: Regularly review your overrides to ensure they’re still necessary and consider updating Project Configurations when overrides become standard practice.