Change/Set the default text size in Report Text

[FFFool]

14 is a bit large to have as the default text size in the Report Text Tool. Can we make it a "normal" size like 11 or 12? I am always forgetting to change it when setting up automated emails, and have to go back and edit it. 

Can either be a setting, or we should just change the default to a normal size. 

Text in this post set to 14(4 looked close) for effect. 

Thanks! 

[RPM]

This! Please implement.

[SeanAdams]

agree with you FFFool - it's still far too difficult to do something as simple as "Change the font through all of my report components to Calibri 10pt".

For my money there are two easy things that we can look at here:

a) for each tool, allow users to save their default settings for a tool like you can in Visio.   So if I always make my comment boxes red with no border, I'd like to be able to drop one on the canvas, then right-click and say "set this as the default setting for this component whenever I use it".

b) Additionally - for things like fonts, it makes sense to have global settings which everything inherits from.   So - I want all output to use Calibri 10, unless I explicitly change away from this.

If we tackle this as a generic capability (i.e. ability to set the default behavior of any tool) then I could also set things like "I want to always use batch size of 20 000 on output components" instead of having to specify this every time.

Hopefully this makes sense and doesn't derail your idea.

Sean

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[NicoleJ]

Keep an eye out for some very exciting updates around setting custom tool defaults, coming soon! 

[NicoleJ]

We are SO excited about all the possibilities with our new Custom Tool Defaults setting, available with 24.2 release - you can now set your own custom tool defaults for ANY tool!! 

This means you can set your own default for that Report Text tool, as well as set custom options for virtually any other tool too! (NOTE: In this specific use case, Report Text tool is a bit special, so in order to save that format you may have to place some dummy placeholder text into the Report Text tool to format that text, in order for the configuration default to "stick")

[SeanAdams]

This is going to be huge in terms of quality of life and time saving - thank you!