Hi Nathan, Indeed importing global options from an XML options file also resets all other options which have been set by the current user. In Oxygen 17 (April-May this year) we will improve the options import and by default not overwrite all other user-level changes. I'm not sure what you mean by "dita filters", do you mean you share transformation scenarios or Profiling Condition Sets defined in "Editor / Edit modes / Author / Profiling/Conditional Text"? Here's what you could do right now: 1) If you want to share transformation scenarios with the others: a) In the Options menu you also have the setting to export global transformation scenarios. Then users can use the action "Import Transformation Scenarios" to import the scenarios. b) Or you can save scenarios at project level and have all other users use the same Project in the Project view when working with Oxygen:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/#topics/transformation-scenarios-shar...

2) If you actually want to share profiling options defined in the Preferences->""Editor / Edit modes / Author / Profiling/Conditional Text"" page: a) Either pass the entire page to Project options and then share the project with others:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/#topics/preferences-sharing.html

b) Or use a subject scheme map to provide fixed value lists for each DITA profiling attribute:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/#topics/subject-scheme-map.html

and if you have a DITAVAL file created for each of your filters, the preferences page has an "Import From DITAVAL" button which automatically updates the profiling condition sets list. Regards, Radu Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com On 3/13/2015 7:53 AM, Nathan wrote:

Hi, We use Oxygen 15.2 and distribute dita filters via the default-options.xml file to our writers (using the global option). But whenever there is an update to this file and the file is imported by our writers, it wipes out the writers preset options. Is there any way of retaining the authoring presets of the writers while allowing for us to keep distributing our dita filters this way? It would be great if there is a default-options.xml file where we have the filtering options and then a user-options.xml which can override some of the default options. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks! Nathan

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