# Settings in Google Issue Tracker allow you to specify preferences like your email notifications, the homepage you see when you open Issue Tracker, and how dates and times are formatted. To access your settings, click the **Settings** icon (the gear in the upper right-hand corner) and then select **Settings**. ![](https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/images/public/gear-highlight.png) The **Settings** screen is divided into two categories, **General** settings and **Notifications** settings. ## General settings General settings contains configuration options for the appearance and behavior of Google Issue Tracker, including homepage preferences, date and time formatting, and keyboard settings. ### Preferred homepage You can [choose a homepage](https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/guides/set-a-homepage), which is the page that is displayed by default when you open Issue Tracker. The default homepage is a list of issues that are both open and assigned to you. As an alternative, you can set your homepage to any [hotlist](https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/concepts/hotlists), [saved search](https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/concepts/saved-searches) or [bookmark group](https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/concepts/bookmark-groups) that you can access. You cannot directly set a homepage to the **Starred by me** , **CC'd to me** , **Reported by me** , or **To be verified** links in the left-hand navigation. However, you can indirectly set one of these views as your homepage. To do so, click the link on the left-hand navigation and [create a saved search](https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/guides/work-with-saved-search) from the search results page. You can then set the saved search as your homepage. ### Date/time formatting settings You can also [set how dates and times are displayed in Issue Tracker](https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/guides/set-date-time-formatting). These formatting preferences are applied to the display of timestamps in the **Created** and **Last modified** fields, as well as in custom fields that store date and time data. #### Date formats Issue Tracker supports the following date formats: - Dec 31, 2015 - Thu Dec 31, 2015 - 2015-12-31 - 12/31/2015 - 31-12-2015 - 31.12.2015 #### Time formats Issue Tracker supports the following time formats: - 01:00PM - 1:00PM - 13:00 - 13:00:01 #### Time zone Issue Tracker supports the following time zones: - Local time - UTC - America/Los_Angeles > [!TIP] > Hover over a timestamp to display the time in time zones that you have not set as the default. ### Keyboard settings The keyboard settings enable or disable Issue Tracker's keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts are also referred to as "hotkeys". By default, hotkeys are enabled. To disable Issue Tracker keyboard shortcuts, toggle the **Enable all hotkeys** option. For a list of all keyboard shortcuts, press `?`. ### Display settings The display settings control how comments are displayed in Issue Tracker. There are two options: - Force comments to display as plain text - Force comments to display with code font By default, these options are disabled. To enable one of the options, toggle it in the display settings. ## Notifications settings Issue Tracker can send email [notifications](https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/guides/set-notification-preferences) when issues are created or updated to inform you of the change. These notifications depend on your role on the issue and the notification level you have chosen. If you have more than one role and the roles have different notification levels, Issue Tracker sends an email when the highest level is matched. For example, you can choose to receive emails when all issues that you have starred have changed but choose to receive only minimal emails where you are in the **Verifier** field of an issue. If a change is made to an issue you have starred and you are also the verifier, you receive all email notifications for the issue. ### Notification roles Issue Tracker has the following notification roles: | Role | Description | |---|---| | **Assignee** | Your username is in the *Assignee* field of an issue | | **Reporter** | Your username is in the *Reporter* field of an issue | | **Verifier** | Your username is in the *Verifier* field of an issue | | **Collaborator** | Your username is in the *Collaborators* field of an issue | | **CC'd** | Your username is in the *CC* field of an issue | | **Starred** | You have starred the issue | ### Notification levels You will always be notified when you are added or removed from an issue. For notifications about other changes, Issue Tracker has the following notification levels: | Level | Description | |---|---| | **All Updates** | You receive email for closing, major, and minor edits | | **Major Updates** | You receive email for closing and major edits only | | **Closure Only** | You receive email for closing edits only | | **Minimal** | You receive email if an issue is marked as fixed and you are the verifier | For information on what types of edits fall into the major and minor categories, see [Issues](https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/concepts/issues#edits). ### Notifications for your own edits By default, Issue Tracker doesn't send notifications for your edits unless you are also in a group that is in the **CC** list for the issue. You can change this default and receive email for your edits by toggling the **Exclude edits made by you** option. ### Group member notifications You can add groups like Google groups or email lists to an issue's **CC** field. Members of the group receive email notifications if: - Their CC [notification settings](https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/guides/set-notification-preferences) are configured to allow notifications - The user's subscription settings for the group are to set to **Each email** ### Per-issue notification preferences You can change your level of notifications on a particular issue by using the subscription menu on the issue details page. ![](https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/images/public/notification-picker.png) Selecting a notification level in this menu overrides any [role-based notification setting](https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/concepts/settings#notification-roles) for the issue. This allows finer control over the amount of notifications you receive on a particular issue. The notification preference selected in this menu is unaffected by any change to your role(s) on the issue. You can revert back to your role-based notifications at any time by selecting the **Default** option at the top of the menu. This menu provides a **None** option that mutes notifications for the issue. Selecting this prevents you from receiving *any* email notifications for the issue.