Display & Interface Settings

DeskManager Online offers several display and interface settings for personalization and ease of use. If you have difficulty reading DeskManager Online or struggle with multiple tabs, that’s a good sign you should customize your display and interface settings. 

Questions this answers

• "I set up a nice color scheme for our system and told my team about it, but everyone's screen still looks like the old default — do they each have to change it themselves?"

These settings belong to your user account, not to the dealership

Everything on the Display & Interface Settings window — Theme, the individual header, menu, background and module colors, font sizes, toolbar icons, saved-filter behaviour and where detail pages open — is saved against the user account that changed it. Choosing a theme changes your own screen and nobody else's.

There is no dealership-wide or lot-wide theme, and nothing in Settings sets one for your staff. So a color scheme you picked and announced will not appear on anyone else's screen: each person has to click their own user initials in the top-right, open Display & Interface Settings, and choose the theme themselves.

The upside of it being per user is that the choice follows the person, not the machine — sign in from a different computer and your own theme, font sizes and toolbar choices come with you.

If you want your team on a consistent look, the only way is to walk them through those two clicks and tell them which theme to pick.

Customizing Display and Interface Settings  

Click your user initials in the top-right. Then select Display & Interface Settings.

[Display – Interface Settings] 

You should now see the settings window. To get a better view of what you’ll be customizing, click the top of the settings window and drag it to a different part of the screen. 

Under the Theme field, you can select one of four default themes: Colorful, Bluesy, Oceanic, and Royal.  

For more customization, select the Custom option under theme. The Header, Menu, Background, and Modules fields will now be unlocked. You can change their colors individually. 

You can also adjust the size of fonts. Under the Forms column, you can change the font of labels, inputs, and tabs. 

Under the Toolbar column, you can toggle toolbar icons on or off. 

You may tell DeskManager Online how to choose a Saved Filter. If Last Selection is enabled, DeskManager Online will automatically apply the previous Saved Filter. 

If Let Me Choose is selected, DeskManager Online will never apply a Saved Filter unless you choose to. 

Lastly, you may tell DeskManager where to open Detail Pages, such as for inventory or accounts. If New Window is selected, DeskManager will open this page in a new tab. 

If Current Window is selected, DeskManager will open the page on the current tab.