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Change default selection layout on planning page to Grid

YvanMartino
Tera Contributor

Is there any way to stop enforcing the default to All the Planning page layout?

 

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Our users want to retain the choice they've made for their user sessions across projects, or if that's not an option change the default to Grid instead of All 

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Laveena-Agarwal
Mega Sage

Hi @YvanMartino 

The user preference sn_pw_planning_layout is used to control the layout behavior in Planning Workspace.

  • For All → pass default
  • For Grid → pass grid
  • For Gantt → pass timeline

If I select any option, it sticks to my user preference and works perfectly fine.

 

But in your case, since it’s not working, you can create a system-level user preference so that a default is applied for all users:

  • Go to User Preferences
  • Create a new record with:
    • Name: sn_pw_planning_layout
    • System: true
    • Value: grid (or whatever layout you want as default)
  • Keep the User field empty

This way, even if no user-specific preference is set, the system default will be picked.

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Thanks Laveena,

That doesn't seem to have work for us, not even specifying a user seems to make a difference.

Hi @YvanMartino 

Test with a new user which you haven't it with yet.

That has failed too, looks like I'll have to put in a support ticket.