.. _User and Common Settings Location:

User and Common Settings Location
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-  **User level settings**
    -  Location is set by default in $HOME/.dvt/settings when DVT is started using *dvt.sh* or *dvt_cli.sh* scripts on Linux. On Windows and MacOS the user location is not defined and the engine for settings management is disabled.
    -  To set or change the location of user level settings the ``$DVT_USER_SETTINGS`` variable must be set in the environment before DVT is started.

-  **Common level settings**
    -  Location is not defined by default.
    -  To set or change the location for common level settings, the ``$DVT_COMMON_SETTINGS`` variable must be set in the environment before DVT is started.
    -  If multiple common levels are needed then the variable can contain multiple paths separated using the OS's path separator. In this case the last directory will have the higher precedence.

