The Settings Tab in SpecLink Cloud

Overview

The Settings Tab of the SpecLink Cloud Dashboard will allow users to access individual user settings as well as the ability to set project type default privacy and admin settings.
 

Within the Global Settings, there are two pages contained within, My Settings and Project Type Defaults.
 

My Settings

The My Settings page will contain specific settings related to the individual user. Options found in the My Settings tab are 

• Customize Email Notifications 
• Customize Open Section Behavior 
• Show/Hide Enhanced Text Visual Indicators
• Show Choices in Compressed or Expanded View

Customize Email Notifications

Customize Email Notifications is a toggle to determine if the user will or will not receive emails related to comment @mentions. The default is set to "On". 
 

Customize Open Section Behavior

Customize Open Section Behavior is a toggle to determine how a section will open. The default is set to "Off" meaning that the section will open in the users current tab.
 

When the toggle is switched "On" sections will open in a new tab of the users browser.
 

Show/Hide Enhanced Text Visual Indicators

Show/Hide Enhanced Text Visual Indicators is a toggle of the visual indicator symbols. It will determine if the additional symbols associated with Enhanced Text will or will not appear when viewing a specification section. 

Review the Text Colors and Symbols topic in the Summary of Colors & Symbols article for more information.
 

Show Choices in Compressed or Expanded View

Show Choices in Compressed or Expanded View provides the ability for the user to control how Choices Fields display in the section editing window through a new view toggle. 

The default setting in SpecLink is the compressed view.

Compressed View:

The current compressed view shows only the currently selected choice option(s). 

Expanded View:

The expanded view shows all options with the full choice highlighted by a light blue background. The light blue background indicates the full extent of an expanded choice view, including when inline within a paragraph.  

The expanded view renders both multiple-select and single-select choice fields with radio buttons or checkboxes to the left of each option. It is important to note that due to the length and complexity of some choice fields, it is expected that there will be uneven paragraph wrapping while using Expanded view.

Single enhanced text types such as Global Terms and Section ID’s will continue to view without the Enhanced Text visualization.

Project Type Defaults

New projects, office masters, migrated, or incoming projects can be set globally to have initial privacy settings to public, private, or hidden.

The project admin default can also be set to the user who created the project or, if desired, unassigned.

Settings Tab Video

Watch the video below to see the tools and options of the Settings tab in action: