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Advanced System Settings
- Article
- Thu Oct 23 2025
- 3 minutes to read
- 1 contributors
The Advanced Settings provides access to all of the available settings within your instance. These offer serveral detailed configuration options to configure your instance just the way that you want it. Some of these settings can also be managed from within other areas of the Administration interface or from the Hornbill Client. Before changing a setting, it is important to understand how the setting is used in order to prevent any disruption on your instance.

Accessing advanced system settings
There are two options for locating an advanced system setting.
Browse for the setting
- Open Configuration using the cog icon in the left-hand vertical menu bar.
- Select Platform Configuration from the navigation drop-down.
- Locate the section titled Advanced Tools and Settings
- Select Advanced System Settings.
Search for the setting
- On your keyboard, use the key combination Ctrl+Shift+s.
- In the search box, type the setting name.
- View the contents in the results list.
- Click on the setting name.
Advanced settings list
Toolbar
- Filter. The filter allows you to find a particular setting by entering part or all of the name of the setting you are looking for.
- Categories. The Settings are separated into distinct areas. Using the Category Selector, you can view settings that are associated to one of these areas.
- Show only modified settings. Each Setting is provided with a default value. The option to Show Only Modified Settings allows you to quickly see all settings that have been changed from their default value.
- Include read-only Settings. Some settings cannot be changed and are there for informational purposes only. Checking this option will include these settings within the main list. Read-only settings can be identified by their No Entry icon.
Revert to default
A revert icon is visible on the right-hand side of each setting that has been modified. Clicking on this icon will return the setting to the original value.

Experimental features
Included with Hornbill are several experimental features. These are features that are currently being looked at as possible future functionality within Hornbill.
It is important to note that by definition, Experimental Features are provided as a way to allow our customers to preview some of the ideas we are experimenting with, these are "experimental’ and that means the following: -
- An experimental feature may be either defective or feature incomplete.
- An experimental feature is subject to change at any time, without prior notice.
- An experimental feature may be withdrawn/taken out of service at any time, for any reason and without prior notice.
- You should not make purchasing decisions based on the experimental features for the above reasons.
- An experimental feature should not be relied upon on for production use. You are free to use experimental features in production if there is an option to enable it, but by doing so you are accepting the points herein.
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