User settings

Configure your personal preferences, defaults, and account information in user settings.

Opening settings

Click your name at the bottom of the sidebar.
Select Settings.

Settings opens on Profile. The settings sidebar lists the other pages.

Profile

Profile shows your name, email address, and profile picture. These come from the account you sign in with (for example, Google) and cannot be edited in EKX.

Automatic protection updates lets EKX replace protection equipment and adjust supported trip settings automatically after your edits. Project sizing mode and equipment locks still apply.

App colours

Open App Colours to pick a background palette for light mode and another for dark mode. Each option shows a thumbnail of the app shell in that palette. The section marked "In use" is the one your current theme is showing.

Light palettes: Paper (white, default), Porcelain, Mist, Frost, and Linen.
Dark palettes: Graphite (default), Obsidian, Slate, Midnight, Navy, and Umber.

The choice is saved in this browser only.

To switch between light, dark, and system themes, click your name at the bottom of the sidebar, then choose Theme > Light, Dark, or System.

My defaults

My Defaults sets component values that apply only to components you create. They override system, organization, and project defaults, including allowed equipment sizes. Other users keep their own defaults.

Go to Settings > My Defaults.
Select a component type.
Edit the default values. Changes save as you make them.

See Understanding defaults for the hierarchy.

Diagram labels

Diagram Labels chooses which fields each component type shows on the single-line diagram, and how labels appear on TCC plots. Your choices apply to all your projects and override organization and project label settings.

Go to Settings > Diagram Labels.
Select a component type, or Labels under TCC.
Turn the fields you want on or off.

API access

Create and revoke keys for scripts and user-controlled agents from Settings > API Keys.

When you create a key:

Give it a name that identifies the tool using it.
Select only the project, study, and sizing scopes that tool needs.
Copy the key when EKX shows it. You cannot reveal it again later.
Store it in a secret manager, not in source code or project files.

API keys act with your project permissions. Revoke a key immediately if it may have been exposed or if the tool no longer needs access.

See Connect to the EKX API for authentication, scopes, retries, and request examples.

Billing and subscription

Settings > Billing shows your current plan, its features, and when the current period renews or ends.

Without a paid plan, choose Starter or Professional, then click Upgrade to the plan to

open checkout.

With a paid plan, click Manage Subscription to change the plan, update the payment method, or

cancel.

Billing History lists recent payments.

See Plans and pricing for what each plan includes.

Usage

Settings > Usage shows your AI credit balance for the current period, when it resets, daily usage, usage by feature, and your last 50 AI requests.

Organization settings - Org-level configuration
Understanding defaults - Defaults hierarchy
Setting defaults - How to save defaults