User profiles help you to standardize the look and feel of your models and to support standards by making groups of options and preferences portable for sharing and reuse across your organization. Various user profiles are provided with PowerDesigner, and you can create your own.
Display Preferences – [model or registry] to control the color, shape, size, etc. of your diagram symbols and the information that is displayed upon them (see Display Preferences).
Model Options – [model only] to control naming conventions (see Naming Conventions), case sensitivity, notation, default values, etc (see the appropriate modeling guide).
General Options – [registry only] to control dialog preferences, environment variables, fonts, etc (see General Options).
Other options – [registry only] such as the layout of toolbars and windows (see Organizing Views), favorite property tabs (see Customizing a Property Sheet), default columns for object lists (see Customizing Object List Columns and Filtering Lists), etc.
To view the list of user profiles, select . For information about the tools available in resource file lists, see PowerDesigner Resource Files.
User profiles can contain any number of default preferences and options, the application of which is cumulative. Thus, if you apply a user profile that contains display preferences specifying that PDM table symbols are by default red, and view symbols blue, and then apply a second user profile that sets tables by default to green, then table symbols will be green, and view symbols blue. You can, of course, override these default preferences and options locally in the model.