Presets

Hello, Nelieta, this is a basic question and of very beginner although is not stupid question.

Perhaps the Presets help page will show you more on how to use presets. To add more presets to a filter you just go the black triangular on the top right of the presets panel part.

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Nelieta I have a "Default" preset and would like to add more variations. However when I make small changes to a new preset that I have added, then the default changes too.

Are you using the filter inside or outside of filter editor? Because as far as I know the presets using filter forge without going into the filter editor are never changed unless you manually upd ate them, but the default preset is always changed with the latest settings you may have made INSIDE the filter editor.

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From the preset link above The Default Preset The default preset (the first one in the preset list) stores the default values for all controls in a filter, so when a filter is shown for the first time in the preview, it uses the values from the default preset. The default preset is always present in any filter and cannot be deleted. For user-created filters (those located in the My Filters category), it can be updated using the Upd ate command described above. When you save a filter in the Filter Editor, the current values of all the control components in the filter are saved into the default preset.

ADDING FILTER PRESETS INSIDE FILTER EDITOR

Reading again the preset help page I have seen that there may be something missing and that is not put how to add additional presets when you are inside filter editor

When opening a filter you have to go to the Results component and click on the "Filter Controls" and then it will appear on the top left the settings panel and you have to click on the preset tab to have them and then in the same way as before click on the black triangle to add new presets variation, ALTHOUGH is very important to know that this presets are going to be changed if you make any further change of components or settings of the components INSIDE the filter, you change the se ttings inside the filter editor only with the se ttings panel so the presets are not changed.

if you have any further question, feel free to ask.

Glad to be helpful! I knew it should be inside the filter editor, because outside the filter editor the default preset is not changed unless you change it yourself manually.

A filter is like a chain of instructions that follow the components and the settings they have, you can add control components to be able to control the settings of the components from outside of filter editor (or inside the filter editor keeping the default preset) and this way you can modify what you want in the filter but without changing the default preset.

The default preset in the filter editor changes when a component is added or deleted from the filter, or is modified the settings of any component without having added a control component to it, also if you move any of the links inside the filter will change the default preset.

If you make a new additional preset while making the filter and then you change things in the filter, this new preset you have added will follow the instructions of the default preset and the variations it has to this default preset to show what you have made as a preset, I mean that if you make 10 new presets, all this will be according to what the default preset looks like and be attached to it. If the default preset is changed, all the other presets will be changed too.

You must make different filter if what you want to modify can´t be done with just using control component to modify the settings, like adding or removing components or moving links inside the filter.