Overview of Profile Options

Profile options are a set of preferences that you use to centrally manage the user interface settings and application behavior.

You can use the profile options to manage, for example:

User preferences to specify language or currency.
Configuration choices to change the user interface skin or appearance of fonts.
Processing options to determine how much of an activity needs to be logged and at which level.

In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to these tasks:

This table explains what each task is used for.

Task	Purpose
Manage Profile Options	Create new profile options or modify existing profile options, except some which are predefined and restricted to prevent any modifications.
Manage Profile Categories	Group the profile options based on their functional similarities.
Manage Administrator Profile Values	Set the profile values for the enabled profile options to control application behavior.