General

When you open the Design Studio Settings window, the General tab appears by default. Use this tab to set general preferences for Design Studio.

The following table describes options on the General tab.

Option	Description
When switching to Design Studio	Indicates what happens when the user switches to Design Studio from another application. When Refresh all projects is selected (default), Design Studio checks if any files in any open projects have changed since Design Studio last had focus. If it detects conflicting changes, it helps resolve them and then refreshes the entire My Projects view. When Refresh only file editors is selected, Design Studio checks if any files in any open projects have changed since Design Studio last had focus. If it detects conflicting changes, it helps resolve them but does not refresh the My Projects view. If the user resolves a conflict for an open file in the current editor, the view may be partly refreshed (for this file), but not for the entire project. When Do not refresh is selected, no check for conflicting changes or refresh happens.
Default execution mode	Specifies the default robot execution mode for all newly created robots.
Maximum number of recent projects	Lists the maximum number to include in the local history of recent Design Studio projects. Users can access the list by selecting File > Recent Projects.
Maximum number of recent files	Lists the maximum number to include in the local history of recent Design Studio files. Users can access the list by selecting File > Recent Files.
Reopen projects on startup	When selected, the most recent project is reopened when Design Studio is started.
Show welcome screen at startup	When selected, the Welcome screen is shown when Design Studio is started.
Create backup files	When selected, backup files are created whenever a saved file is changed. Backup file names end with a tilde (~) character.
Documentation location	When selected, the Kofax RPA documentation set is available for use in offline mode.
Show documentation retrieval notifications	When selected, the "Retrieving help and documentation" warning is displayed if you try to access the online documentation from Kofax RPA without Internet access.
Synchronize remote files opened via URL	Specifies whether to synchronize files stored in Management Console and opened in Design Studio with a URL. If set to Never, the file version opened in Design Studio may not match the version stored in Management Console. By default, set to Ask every time.