Customized Default Options

You can overwrite the Default Options values by loading a set of options, from a specific XML structure, stored in one of the following file types:

options file - containing all application options.
To create an options file, follow these steps:
- make sure the options that you want to set are not stored at project level;
- set the values you want to impose as defaults in the Preferences pages;
- select Options > Export Global Options.
project file (.xpr file extension) - containing only the options different from the Default Options.
To create a project file (.xpr file extension), follow these steps:
- create an Oxygen project or open an already existing one in the Project view;
- store the options that you want to set with default values at project level
- set the values of the default options in the Preferences dialog so that they are saved in the project file.

There are two ways of telling the application to use such an options configuration file to extract the customized default options:

set the file path of the options configuration file as value of com.oxygenxml.default.options startup parameter.
The file must be specified with an URL or a file path relative to the application installation folder. For example, :
```
-Dcom.oxygenxml.default.options=options/default.xml
```
copy the options configuration file in the [Oxygen-install-folder]/preferences folder.

Note: Make sure that the options configuration file has an .xml or an .xpr extension, like default-options.xml.

Note:

In the Java Webstart distribution, the same procedures apply.

If you want to specify the path to the default options using a parameter, the parameter com.oxygenxml.default.options must be set in the .jnlp file that launches the editor using a property element, for example:

 <property name="oxy:com.oxygenxml.default.options" value="http://host/path/to/default-options.xml"/>