---
title: "Designer Settings"
slug: "designer-studio-settings"
description: "Learn what the Decisions Studio for Designers is and how to access it for designing and customizing Decisions applications."
tags: ["Studio"]
updated: 2026-04-28T14:11:59Z
published: 2026-04-28T14:13:04Z
canonical: "documentation.decisions.com/designer-studio-settings"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Designer Settings

## Overview

The **Designer Settings** is a category under **System > Settings** that can adjust Designer features and their configurations.

All available Designer settings, their default values, and their functions are listed in the table below.

| Setting Location | Setting Name | Default Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| All Designers | Enable Bulk Name Change Action | False | Toggles appearance of the **Rename Data Type in Folder** Designer Project action. |
| Hide Modifications Comments in History | True | Toggles appearance of details such as user name, datetime, etc. in a Designer Element's history upon save. |
| Require Comment on Save | False | Toggles requiring a comment upon saving a Designer Element. |
| Submit Step Help Requests | True | Toggles submitting step help requests via API calls to Decisions upon opening an empty step help information window. |
| Maximum Items in Lookup Lists | 250 | Prompts for item limit shown in Lookup Lists in the Flow Designer. |
| Disable Filtering For Administrators | False | Toggles if visibility rules apply to Administrator accounts. |
| Automatically Add Entities to Parent Folder's Module | True | Toggles automatically attaching a created items to its parent Folder's module. |
| Show Warning If Item Is Related To More Than X Other Rules and Flows | 3 | Prompts for minimum number of dependencies needed to trigger a warning about dependencies once the item updates. |
| Archive | Archive Old Versions On Save | True | Toggles storing a backup of an item upon save. Backups are found in the item's History Folder. |
| Ignore Versions Less Than Age | 15 minutes | Prompts for a time limit that prevents backup creation if a new save occurs too recently from its most recent save. This is used to maintain meaningful backups by preventing duplicates. |
| Designer Folder | Show Default Folder View Page | True | Toggles the default view of a Designer Project. When set to False, the List view is shown by default. |
| Default Page Type | Designer Project View | Allow selection of which Page of the Designer Folder loads by default once selected. |
|  | Designer Folder View | -- | Designer Projects load the List Page by default. |
|  | Designer Project View | -- | Designer Projects load the Folder View by default. |
| Designer Settings | Check for newer versions in Repository | True | Toggles if the Repository checks their entities for newer versions. Only useful if the instance is a Repository. |
| Flow Designer | Clear Flow Data On Exception | False | Toggles clearing Flow data once an exception occurs. When set to True, a Flow needs to set its **Clear Policy On Exception** setting in the **Flow Designer** to either YES or Use Default to function. |
| Respect Permissions in Fetch Entities(Available for v9.18 and above) | True | This setting enables Users to toggle the **Respect Permissions** property as **True/False** for the following steps: - **Fetch Entities** - **Fetch Distinct Values** - **Get CountDelete Entities** - **Update Entities** - **Lease Entity** - **Delete All of Type** |
| Link Type | Cornered | Allows selection of the default link's appearance in the Flow Designer. |
| Step Shape | DarkIcon | Allows selection of the default step's shape in the Flow Designer. |
| Jump Lines | True | Toggles whether connected lines in the Flow Designer jump over each other. |
| Avoid Nodes | True | Toggles avoiding other nodes in the Flow Designer while connecting two nodes. |
| Hide Advanced Flow Steps (v9.5+) | True | Hides many categories of Flow Steps in the Flow Designer. These Steps are not intended for public use. |
| Form Validations | -- | -- | -- |
|  | Validation Style | Validation Outline | Surround | Allows selection of the default validation outline on a Form. |
| Validation Display | IconAndText | Allows selection of the default validation display type on a Form. |
|  | Break | Background and Border Color | blank | Allows selection of the background and border colors for fatal aka break validations on a Form. |
|  | Warning | Background and Border Color | blank | Allows selection of the background and border colors for warning validations on a Form. |
|  | No Issue | Display No Issue Validation | False | Toggles configuring default settings for no validations i.e. when removing a validation error from the Form. |
| Grid | Can Add Columns | False | Toggles ability to add columns to a Report at runtime. |
| Show Group Field Name | Not On Single Grouping | Allows selection of when group names are shown on Reports. |
|  | Not On Single Grouping | -- | Reports display group names if the Report does not use single grouping. |
|  | Never | -- | Reports will never display group names. |
|  | Always | -- | Reports may always display group names. |
| Icon Type | Circle | Allows selection of the default icon for Reports. |
| Row Left/Right Click Action Type | Show Slider/Show Actions | Allow selection of default left click/right click action type for Reports. |
|  | Show Slider | -- | Clicking expands the Slider menu to display the item's details, actions, properties, and tags. |
|  | Show Actions | -- | Clicking expands the Action menu for the items in the Report. |
|  | Default Action | -- | Clicking activates the default assigned action. |
|  | No Actions | -- | Clicking does not activate any actions; nothing happens. |
| Selected Rows Style | Left Side Indicator | Allows selection of the default appearance of a selected row in Reports. |
| Enable Row Numbering | True | Toggles enumerating rows in Reports. |
| Enable Grouping | True | Toggles grouping columns in Reports. |
| Enable Sorting | True | Toggles sorting columns in Reports. |
| Enable Grid Stretch Mode | False | Toggles ability to enter Grid Stretch Mode in Reports. |
| Report Row Numbering | Reset on Every Page on Report | Allows selection of how rows are numbered during pagination. |
|  | Reset on Every Page of Report | -- | Row numbers are contained within their Report page. |
|  | Continue Numbers on Report | -- | Row numbers persist between Report pages. |
| Show Selected Row Indicator | False | Toggles appearance of row indicator in Reports. |
| Importing | Approve Importing | True | Toggles creating import assignments once an import error occurs. When both this setting and the **Assign Task When Importing Missing Folder Structure** in the **Portal Settings** are set to True, then the import assignments are sent to the groups specified in the **Approve Import By Group** setting. When this setting is set to False while the other is set to True, then the import assignments are sent to the Administrators group. |
| Approve Import By Group | blank | Allow selection of which groups receive import assignments when the Approve Importing setting is True. |
| Integration with Database | Groups Can Create Connection | Designers, Administrators | Allows selection of which user groups can create a connection string. |
| Groups Can See Connection String | Designers, Administrators | Allows selection of which user groups can see any connection strings. |
| Owner | Set Creator as Owner | True | Toggles if the creator of an entity is automatically set as its owner. Owners receive notifications whenever their owned entities are ran, edited, or deleted. |
| Notify Owner on Changes | True | Toggles if owners receive notifications when any changes occur to their entities. |
| Project Health | Disable All Custom Conditions | False | Allows for custom Health conditions to not be used. |
| Projects | Groups that can create projects | Designers, Administrators | Allows selection of which user groups can create Projects. Designer Users must specifically be added to a Group with this permission before they are able to create a new Project, convert a legacy Project, or move something into a new Project. |
| Query Editor | Allow Designers to Use Query Editor | False | Toggles whether an account in the default Designer group can access the Query Editor. |
| Report Designers | In-Memory Data Pagination | False | Toggles loading Report Data in memory. When set to True, set a Report's **Use Paging** setting to True and **In-Memory Data Pagination** to Default in the **Report Designer** settings. |
| Report Viewer | Allow Edit Report Button in Header | True | Toggles displaying the Edit button under the Configuration dialog of Report Viewer. |
| Rule Designer | List Rule Constant Values Over | 10 | Prompts for a total of passed items that, if exceeded, a Statement Rule will not display its value. Instead, it will display "[#] items. View Mapping for values". |
| Show Case Sensitive Indicator in Rule Text | False | Toggles checking case sensitivity in the Statement Rule Designer. |
| Run Unit Tests | Email Addresses to Notify on Broken Tests | blank | Prompts for an email address that the server will notify once a broken unit test occurs. |
| Run Unit Tests after Designer Saved | False | Toggles automatically running associated unit tests after saving in a Visual Designer. |
|  | All Unit Tests Execution | Daily | False | Toggles running all unit tests daily at a specified hour to routinely test all process functionality. |
| After Import | False | Toggles running all unit tests after importing a project to ensure the imported project executes correctly in the new environment. |
| Flow to Run after All Unit Tests Execution | After Unit Test Execution Completed | Allows selection of a Flow to run after all unit test executions finish. |
| State Colors | Default 1-16 | Various | Allows selection of default colors for states seen in the Set State step and in a Process Folder's timeline. |
| Studio Settings | Project Documentation Template | blank | Prompts for adding a custom NVelocity Template into the instance. This template can be used in steps like **Generate Report For Module Name** to generate a ProjectReport.html that displays entity data. |
| User Defined Type | Add Member Category | Entity [User Defined] | Prompts for a new name for the action of adding data into an Entity. This action then exists under the **All > Add** folder action category. |

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## Feature Changes

| Description | Version | Release | Developer Task |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Added the Hide Step Categories in Toolbox setting. | [9.5](https://documentation.decisions.com/v99/docs/version-95x-release-notes) | November 2024 | [DT-042302] |
| Change the permissions required for Designer Users to create new Projects. | [9.15](https://documentation.decisions.com/v99/docs/version-915x-release-notes) | August 2025 | [DT-045218] |
| Added system-level setting called Respect Permissions in Fetch Entities. | [9.18](https://documentation.decisions.com/v99/docs/en/2ebf7a4c-e925-4e8f-9fd4-ff94a14910cc?isPreview=true&versionNumber=1) | December 2025 | [DT-046257] |

For further information on Settings, visit the [Decisions Forum](https://community.decisions.com/categories/Settings).