Reset personal settings during login

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You can reset your personal settings during login. Hold down the Ctrl key during login until you see the "Reset personal settings?" dialogue. Hold down the key until the dialogue opens.

If F2 displays the role selector during login, hold down Ctrl before clicking Continue. If the role selector is not shown, hold down Ctrl before clicking Log in.
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Figure 1. The "Reset personal settings?" dialogue

Click Yes in the dialogue to reset all your personal settings. Click the question mark in the dialogue to see a list of affected personal settings. The table below describes all the affected personal settings.

Type Description

General settings

  • Settings from the "Personal settings" dialogue with the exception of “Out of office” and “On behalf of me”.

  • The position and size of windows.

  • Menu items in the “Quick access” toolbar.

Settings in the main window

  • Personal column layout.

  • Whether advanced search is enabled and where the case list is displayed.

  • The selected display mode for each list (records, cases, documents, or requests).

  • Favourite searches

  • Preview settings for different lists.

  • Width of the list pane.

  • Which lists are expanded in the list pane.

Local storage (cache) of

Local storage of:

  • Records

  • Participants, including suggestions

  • Cases, including suggestions

  • Related searches in context menus.

Misc

  • Width of the panel with case folders in the case window.

  • Whether the ribbon is minimised in different windows.

  • Whether to play the start-up video, if any.