# Overview ## Settings Settings in Brainboard provides a flexible and hierarchical configuration system allowing you to manage settings at different levels of your organization. ### Overview Settings in Brainboard are organized in a hierarchical structure that follows this inheritance pattern: **Organization → Project → Environment → Architecture** This hierarchical approach ensures that configurations that are shared across the hierarchy can be managed efficiently while allowing for specific overrides at any level when needed. ### Accessing Settings #### Organization Settings You can access Organization settings pages from the home page through the left navigation menu: 1. Go to the Home page (click on Brainboard logo in the top-left corner) 2. Click on the Settings icon in the left sidebar 3. Select Organization #### Project Settings You can access Project settings pages from the home page through the left navigation menu: 1. Go to the Home page (click on Brainboard logo in the top-left corner) 2. Click on the Settings icon in the left sidebar 3. Click on Projects 4. Open the project menu using the 3-dots button, and click on "Change settings"

#### Environment Settings You can access the Environment settings pages from the Project settings pages: 1. Access the Project settings following the instructions above 2. Click on an environment chip button from the environments list to access its specific settings

#### Architecture Settings 1. Open your architecture 2. Switch to the settings tab (using the tab selector in the middle of the topbar)

### Hierarchical Settings Management #### Inheritance chain Settings follow a clear inheritance structure: 1. **Organization Level**: The highest level, affects all projects, environments, and architectures.

Settings defined at organization level and not overridden at any lower level

2. **Project Level**: Overrides organization settings for all environments and architectures within the project

Setting defined at organization level being overridden at a project level

3. **Environment Level**: Overrides organization and project settings for all architectures within the environment

Setting defined at organization level being overridden at a project level and again at an environment level

4. **Architecture Level**: The most specific level, overrides all higher-level settings for a particular architecture

Setting defined at organization level being overridden at a project level , then overridden again at an environment level and finally at the architecture level

#### Visual Indicators When viewing settings at any level, you'll see visual indicators showing: * When a setting is locked at higher level (with the source of the lock)

* When a setting is overridden at your level (the reset button shows that the value is set at this level)\

* When a setting is locked at your level preventing any lower levels update\