User Preferences Dialog Box

Use this dialog box to set user-specific settings that affect various features in Cobra.

General Tab

Use this tab to set the date format for your Cobra instance. Cobra uses the date format you set in all date fields. This setting affects the following views, which display date information.

Option	Description
Date Format	Date Format applies to: Exported data — Data exported using the Reporting and wInsight Export, Assignment Export/Import, Copy View, and Copy To features. Imported data — The date format that the application requires when importing data. To avoid invalid date errors, the date format in the import file must match the date setting you select in User Preferences .This rule includes Project view imports from Excel, and imports using the Integration Wizard and Ancillary File Process. If the number of digits specified for the year in User Preferences differs from the number of digits for the year in the import file, the file imports successfully and does not have invalid dates. For example, if the date format in User preferences is set to dd-mm-yy and the date format in the import file is dd-mm-yyyy, the file imports successfully and the dates are stored in Cobra according to the date format in User Preferences.
Use online help when available	Selecting this check box informs Cobra to launch the online help when you have internet connection and access to the online help URL. This check box is selected by default. If the Cobra online help is not available, Cobra will use the locally installed help files, which reside in the Help folder.

Reports Tab

Use this tab to specify the settings that relate to the Report wizard.

Option	Description
Output Type	Use this option to specify the Excel format to use for reports generated using the Report wizard. The default value for this option is Excel Workbook (*.xlsx).