Personal Settings & Avatar

Your personal Options panel is separate from org Administration. It controls how you appear (avatar), whether you work in Core or Pro experience, and preferences such as language/region formatting, fullscreen dialogs, new-task defaults, EAC formula display, and the setup wizard. Org admins still create accounts under Administration & Security / User Management — this chapter is what each signed-in user configures for themselves.

See also: Logging into ProjectLibre · Administration & Security · Gantt Chart · Scheduling · Risk Analysis · Project Audit · Performance Management (EVM) · My Work & My Team (notifications are a different surface — not in this Options panel).

Watch: Avatar and personal settings (~2:01).

Avatar menu → Options

In the left sidebar footer you will see your circular avatar, email chip, and red Sign out. Opening personal settings lands on a full panel headed with your email (demo: support@projectlibre.com). Top controls: Options (gear; active) · Reset. Close X. Footer: Cancel · Apply · Save. Layout: two columns of setting cards.

Sidebar footer — circular avatar, email, Sign out

Personal Options panel — two columns of preference cards

Change avatar

Under Avatar, help text: how you appear across the app — initials, a gallery tile, custom letters, or your own picture. Click Change avatar… to open the Avatar modal.

Modal shows preview (demo initials SP), display name Support ProjectLibre, and email. Instruction: OK keeps the choice; it is applied when you save the settings. Tabs:

• Initials — default initials on a colored background.

• Gallery — categories PEOPLE · WORK.

• Emoji — search (“rocket, owl, brain…”); category SMILEYS & EMOTION; Background color picker.

• Text — Letters (up to 3 characters) + Background / Text color hex.

• Picture — Choose image…, then pick the part of the picture to keep (crop step not completed on camera).

Click OK, then Save on the Options panel to apply.

Avatar modal — Initials tab

Gallery — PEOPLE / WORK tiles

Emoji — search + background color

Text — up to 3 letters + hex colors

Picture — Choose image…

Experience level — Core Pro

Card Experience level: “Core hides advanced views and tools for a focused workspace; Pro shows everything.” Toggle Core | Pro.

1. Select Pro → click Apply to refresh workspace chrome without necessarily closing Options.

2. Observe Project/Gantt: Pro adds sub menus / sub views and advanced toolbar items. Examples: baselines, Monte Carlo analysis, risk, calendars, split tasks. Tooltips in frames include Schedule quality audit (DCMA) and Split Task.

3. Switch back to Core → Save to persist the streamlined workspace.

Core — streamlined Gantt / Project chrome

Switch to Pro → Apply

Pro — richer Project sub-views and toolbar

Pro tooltip example — Schedule quality audit (DCMA)

Pro unlocks surfaces taught elsewhere: Scheduling · Risk · DCMA audit · Split task · baselines under Gantt / scheduling.

Language & region, dialogs, and other Options

Remaining Options cards shown in the video (exact UI titles):

• Subview toggles — where Gantt / Spreadsheet / … toggles sit: Under section | At bottom (help: Pro mode only). Demo: Under section.

• Fullscreen dialogs — Off | Auto | On. Help: Auto opens listed dialogs full-viewport on touch and as centered modals on desktop. Demo: On.

• Language & region (formatting) — date and number formatting (e.g. 1,000.00 vs 1 000,00). Clear / Browser default follows the browser. Help: currency is set company-wide by an administrator (not in this panel).

• Spreadsheet multi-select — Off | Auto | On (Auto: checkbox column on touch; click-and-drag on desktop). Demo: Auto.

Fullscreen dialogs set to On

Language & region (formatting) — locale list (Browser default)

New-task defaults & EAC formula

• New tasks: effort driven — checkbox New tasks are effort driven (checked in demo). Help summary: when on (default), adding/removing a resource holds total work; when off, a resource brings/takes its own work. Never applies to a units change, nor to the first resource on a task.

• New tasks: task type — which of Work = Duration × Units stays fixed: Fixed Units / Fixed Duration / Fixed Work. Applies to tasks created from now on; each task keeps its own setting in Edit. Demo: Fixed Units (default).

• Earned value: EAC formula — how Estimate at Completion (and VAC) forecasts final cost. Help mentions MS Project formula, Additive, Schedule-adjusted; “A display choice — it changes what you see, not the schedule.” Demo dropdown: MS Project: AC + (BAC − EV) (label may truncate). For detailed EVM guidance, see Performance Management.

• Run setup wizard — link in the right column to relaunch the onboarding setup wizard.

Right column — EAC formula, multi-select, Run setup wizard

Watch the personal settings video

Watch: Avatar and personal settings (~2:01).