Settings and several accounts

Settings holds the preferences that belong to you and your devices rather than to one project. A project's own settings, such as its name, its collection scope and its exports, are on the project's own settings page (see Projects and libraries).

Open Settings from Pangur's navigation, or reach it from any page with the Go palette (⌘K or Ctrl+K). Settings shows one section at a time. When you choose a section in the list, the address changes to /settings?section=…, so you can bookmark a section or send someone a link to it. Below the sections, the list links to the Account & billing, Usage, Projects and Support pages.

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The Profile section sets how you appear to other people, on your exhibitions and in invitations.

Your picture is set with Add a picture (later Change picture or Remove). Pangur accepts JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC files up to 8 MB and stores the picture as a 512-pixel square cropped from the centre, with the file's metadata removed. Name is required and can be up to 200 characters; Pangur also updates the name on your sign-in account, and tells you if that part fails. Handle is the address your exhibitions are published under, shown as pangur.io/ followed by the handle, up to 40 characters. You can choose it now or when you first publish, and Pangur tells you if someone else already has it. You can change your handle later, but once you have one you cannot give it up and be left without one. About you is shown on your public page, can be up to 4,000 characters, and accepts Markdown.

Choose Save profile to keep the changes.

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You can be signed in to up to five Pangur accounts in one browser at the same time, for example a personal account and one your institution gave you, and switch between them without signing out. The Accounts section of Settings, and the account menu, list them under Signed-in accounts, with the account in use ticked and labelled In use.

To add an account, choose Add another account and sign in. You stay signed in to the others. A sixth account is refused until you sign out of one. To switch, open an account's ··· menu and choose Switch to this account. Pangur reloads at the home page as that account, clears the project data it had cached on this device for the previous account, and reloads your other open Pangur tabs as well. To sign out of one account, choose Sign out in its menu; if it was the account in use, the browser moves to the next signed-in account. Sign out of all accounts signs every account out.

If an account's session ended while it waited, for example because its sign-in expired, switching to it fails with a message asking you to sign in to it again.

Each account keeps its own projects, plan and profile. Assistants and the pangur command are signed in separately and are not affected by switching accounts in the browser. How the browser holds these sign-ins is described under Signing in and staying signed in.

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Appearance settings are stored in this browser, so they do not follow you to another device or browser. Theme is Light, Dark or Match device, which follows your system setting and is the default. Library list is Comfortable, the default, or Compact, which fits more rows into the library list.

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The Institution section, headed Institutional access, tells Pangur how you reach paywalled articles through your university or library. Fill in Institution name, EZproxy base URL and, if your library has one, OpenURL resolver (optional). Both addresses must start with https://. When Pangur cannot find an open copy of a PDF, the item gets a link that opens the article through your library's proxy, and you add the PDF yourself.

Institutional access belongs to you and applies in all your projects. How Pangur looks for PDFs is explained in Where PDFs come from. You can also set the same details from a terminal with pangur institution.

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Notifications tell this browser when background work you started, such as an import, an export or a summary, has finished, even when the Pangur tab is closed. Choose Tell me when background work finishes and allow the permission the browser asks for. Pangur then confirms that this browser will be told.

Where notifications go lists every browser that receives your notifications, marking the current one and any browser that has stopped answering. Remove stops notifications to a listed browser, and Stop on this browser stops them here. Pangur also drops a browser on its own after five deliveries in a row fail.

If the browser has blocked notifications for Pangur, the section says so and points you to the browser's site settings. If push notifications are not switched on for the server you use, the section says that too, and finished work still appears under Activity.

This section does not appear in Pangur for Mac or on iPhone and iPad, which use the system's own notifications. The work that notifications report is described in Background work and notifications.

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The Help section has Replay tour, which walks you through the workspace again from the start, and links to Contact support and Read the documentation. The iPhone and iPad app does not have the tour. The ways of getting help are set out in Get help.