User preferences

Microsoft Teams support is coming soon.

There are fewer personal settings than people expect, and two of them are stored in your browser rather than against your account, which surprises everyone at least once.

A dropdown under the Capable breadcrumb listing Settings, Documentation, Support, What's new and Website. — The Capable breadcrumb opens the menu that leads to settings, documentation and support.

There is no theme setting, no language setting and no date format setting.

#What you can change

Your settings open in a User settings panel with three sections: General, Notifications and Advanced.

Setting	Where it is stored	Notes
Show Relative Dates	This browser only	On, dates read "2 days ago". Off, they use your browser's locale format
Email	Your account, per app installation	All Capable email, or none. Does not affect Slack or Microsoft Teams
Slack	Your account, per app installation	Slack direct messages to you. Says Applies once your admin connects Slack until Slack is connected. Channel posts are not affected
Microsoft Teams	Your account, per app installation	Microsoft Teams messages to you. Says Applies once your admin connects Microsoft Teams until Teams is connected
Navigation order	Your Atlassian account	Your own ordering, hidden and promoted items
Reset Navigation	n/a	Clears your personal navigation changes. Suite only

The Email, Slack and Microsoft Teams switches only appear where Capable sends notifications. A switch an administrator has turned off for the whole site is greyed out.

Clicking any date flips the relative-date setting app-wide. It is a deliberate shortcut and it catches people out, because nothing indicates the click was a setting change.

#Extra rows for site administrators

Row	What it does
Open Global Settings	Opens Capable's global settings in Confluence administration
Manage notifications	Opens the Notifications tab of global settings, where Slack and Microsoft Teams are connected and each channel can be turned off for everyone

#There is no theme setting

Capable follows your Confluence appearance setting. There is no theme, language or date-format option in the app.

Light and dark come from Confluence's own profile menu, and everything Capable draws follows whatever is chosen there.

#Troubleshoot Permissions

Under Settings, Troubleshoot Permissions explains why content is not visible to you, scoped to the space you currently have selected. It is available in every Capable app.

Each check is reported separately, so a missing permission is named rather than left as a general failure.

#A few things that catch people out

Notification switches are scoped to one app installation, so somebody running both the suite and a standalone Approval app has to switch each one off twice.
Relative dates and saved heading presets live in the browser, so they do not follow you to another machine.
Reset Navigation clears your own changes only. It does not undo anything an administrator has hidden.

Notifications

The notification switches in context.

The Capable byline

Where most of this is reached.

Site settings

What admins control instead.

Fewer than you think. Two live in your browser.