LOVD Setup
Custom columns
Editing custom column default settings
After a custom column is added to a variant table or the patient table, part of the settings can be edited by curators or managers. But the default column settings are stored separately and cannot be edited by curators for three reasons:
- Variant columns can then have different appearance settings per gene.
- Curators can modify some basic settings, but do not have permissions to edit the more advanced settings.
- If a column's settings are screwed up for whatever reason, they can be reset to default settings which can be defined by a manager.
Because of this, not all changes you make will take effect if the column has also been added to a variant table or the patient table because some changes are overridden by the local display settings of that column. Therefor, you can reset a column to the default settings, to apply all of your changes to an added quickly. Changes to some advanced options do take effect immediately, like the MySQL data type and form field type.
To edit the custom column default settings, click the "View all custom column default settings" link in the setup area, select the column of interest and click the "edit settings" link. The fields on this form are explained in the creating new columns section.
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