Preferences & the theme

Your preferences (in the user menu) keeps the viewer’s display choices for you, in this browser: each one is its own cookie, read when the server draws a page, so a choice applies from the first paint and nothing is kept in browser storage. Nothing here names a patient, and nothing changes what you may do. Reset to defaults… clears them all.

• Appearance
• Reading
• Keyboard
• The dark theme

Appearance

• Theme: light, dark, or the one your system uses. The user menu sets it too.
• Density: comfortable (the default) gives rows and forms room; compact fits more rows in every list.
• Reduce motion: follow the system, or always reduce.

Reading

• Language: follow the browser, or one of the languages the viewer ships (English today; see ui.locale under Configuration).
• First day of the week in the date pickers.
• Show a revealed identifier for 15 seconds to 2 minutes: how long a subject id stays shown after Reveal.

Keyboard

Shortcut hints, the key caps after a label: on wide screens with a keyboard (the default), on all wide screens, or never. Phones never show them. The keyboard shortcuts themselves are listed under Keyboard shortcuts in the user menu.

The dark theme

Every screen is drawn in both themes: