What are those dotted lines around the options in my Design Protections/Settings areas?

You may have noticed some dotted lines around certain options in your Design Settings and Design Protections areas. These dotted lines are an part of a new feature called Global Inheritance.

Global Inheritance

Global Inheritance works with the Global Design Settings in your account.

Note: Global Settings are a way to apply default setting selections for any new design created in your account. Designs transferred over from Corjl 1.0 were transferred matching the Global Settings set in your previous account.

The Global Inheritance feature maintains a connection between the Global Design Settings area and the matching settings for a design even after the design has been created.

Because of that connection, or "link," any changes you make in your Global Design Settings will be automatically applied to that same setting in your designs--making it a great way to "bulk update" your designs.

Note: This feature works for the following highlighted features in your Global Design Settings. The non-highlighted features will only apply to newly created designs and will not bulk update.

The dotted lines that appear around the selection box for these settings are a visual way to show that this connection to the Global Settings is being applied:

Any design setting that has these dotted lines visible around the selection box is directly linked to that same option in your Global Design Settings and will automatically update to match any changes you make in your Global Settings.

Breaking the Link

If there is a design setting that you do not wish to be linked to your Global Settings (so it won't change when you update your Global Settings), you can break that connection by clicking on the selection box for that setting.

When you click on that setting, you will see the selection change so the "dotted lines" are removed. This is telling you that this setting is no longer linked to the Global Design Settings and will not update when you update your Global Settings.

If you change your mind and want to re-establish that link to your Global Settings, you can do that by clicking on the selection box again until the dotted lines return with the correct setting.

Design Protections and Layer Protections

The interaction between Design Protection settings and Layer Protection settings is a little bit different.

Initially, both Design Protections and Layer Protections will obey the settings in the Global Design Settings area as shown:

However, Layer Protections will obey any changes you make in the Design Protection Settings as shown:

So for design protections, the hierarchy is Global Settings, then Design Protection settings, and then Layer Protection Settings. Any changes made in the Design Protections area will override the Global Settings and Layer Protection settings will obey those changes in the Design Protections.

If you have certain layers in the design that you wish to override the Design Protection settings, then you need to go into the Layer Protections and select each of those layers individually to apply those changes.

And that’s about it! Although this feature may seem a little tricky to understand at first, we think that giving you the ability to bulk update designs settings will be a huge time saver and help to your workflow.

If you have any questions, reach out to our support team at support@corjl.com. We're here to help!