What Are User Preferences?
User Preferences let you control how Farseer looks and formats data for your account — without affecting other users in the workspace. Date format, decimal separator, app language, and accessibility options are all set here.
Opening Your Profile
Click your name at the bottom of the side navigation to open the user menu, then choose Edit profile. The Profile modal opens with all preferences in one place.
The same user menu also gives you quick access to Switch Tenant, the Help Center, and Log out.
Profile Information
Avatar: Upload a profile picture (PNG, JPEG, or WebP). Images are auto-cropped to a square. Use the remove option to clear an existing avatar.
First name and Last name: Required.
Email: Read-only. Contact a workspace admin if it needs to change.
Locale & Display
These settings control how dates and numbers are displayed everywhere in the app:
Setting | Choices | What it controls |
Date format | YMD, DMY, MDY | Year/month/day order in displayed dates. |
Date separator |
| Character between date parts (e.g. 2026.12.31 vs 2026-12-31). |
Decimal separator | Dot, comma | Number formatting locale — dot for English-style, comma for German-style. |
App language | All available locales | UI text language. Applied immediately on save. |
A live preview is shown next to each setting so you can see the result before saving.
Accessibility
Accessible chart patterns: Turns on special patterns on charts. Affects chart and dashboard tiles. Useful if you find some chart colors hard to distinguish.
How Settings Are Saved
Changes are saved to your user record and follow you across browsers and devices. Updates apply immediately — for example, switching the app language reloads the UI in the new locale without needing to refresh.
If you're using Farseer through an entry link (an anonymous public share), preferences are saved to your local browser instead of a user account, since there's no user record to attach them to.
Defaults
New accounts start with these defaults:
App language: English (en-US)
Date format: YMD
Date separator: . (dot)
Decimal separator: comma (de-DE)
Color palette: Standard
Adjust them in the Profile modal at any time — your preferences override the defaults globally for your sessions.