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Managing instance settings

Instance administrators with the applicable privileges can configure various settings, including file size limits, artifact usage limits and Home Page quick links. Within the Instance Settings, you can also download the Blueprint log, which can be helpful if you are troubleshooting an issue (Logging tab).

The Instance Settings looks like this:

Blueprint gives you the ability to configure various aspects of the instance on the General tab. You can configure the following settings:

Rich Text Properties

Blueprint gives you the ability to set the default font family and font size of any newly created artifact within the instance. This setting applies to rich text supported fields only.
Activity Center Settings

Blueprint gives you the ability to set the number of past months you want to show in the activity feed by default.
File Settings
Excel Update Properties

You can enable or disable the ability to update artifacts using Excel spreadsheets across the instance. For more information about Excel Update, see About Excel update.
Artifact Reuse Properties

Blueprint gives you the ability to let users edit and update the writable properties of reused artifacts. For more information about artifact reuse, see Reusing requirements artifacts.
Password Policy

For database users who are configured for password expiration, here you can set when the password expires, and how long before Blueprint will begin notifying them whenever they log in.
Entering values of 0 effectively disables this option.

Note that database users configured to Allow fallback from federated authentication will have their database password expired based on these settings; however, these settings will not affect the external identity provider.

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