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title: Defining Modeler Settings
description: >-
  As a BPM Manager, define the design settings for the Modeler to ensure a
  consistent design of the processes.
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The settings are located on the **Manage Process Space** page, in the **Modeler Settings** tab; they apply to all new processes.

The **Modeler** must be reopened to apply the changes.

The following settings are managed:

- **Innovator Processes** section

  If you activate this option, Innovator processes can also be edited in the **Modeler**. If it is deactivated, they can only be edited in Innovator.
- **Global Properties** section

  Global properties are fields that you define here for processes, subprocesses, tasks, events, data objects and data stores. In the **Modeler**, the modelers then fill in these fields for the respective element.

  If the toggle of this section is switched off, the modelers cannot set any global properties in the **Modeler**. Values already assigned for global properties are retained and are submitted with the draft.
- **Shape Size** section

  Here you determine the default size of new task elements in the Modeler. If the option is deactivated, the size cannot be changed in the **Modeler**.
- **Color** section

  This option determines whether the modelers can change the fill color and the text/border color of elements in the **Modeler**. You do not set default colors here: Bpanda derives the color suggestions in the **Modeler** from the primary and secondary color that you define on the **Individualize** tab.
- Sections for element types

  The options for various element types determine whether these elements and their subelements can be used in the Modeler for new drafts.

  The following are always available as basic element types:

  - Start event
  - End event
  - Exclusive gateway
  - Task
  - Call activity
  - Sequence flow

  The following element types are managed optionally:

  - Additional element types
  - Gateway types
  - Task types
  - Event definition types
  - Marker types
  - Sequence flow types
- **Validation Settings** section

  Here you define whether certain deviations from the BPMN notation are not displayed in the Modeler, or are displayed as a **Warning** or as an **Error**.

  Regardless of these deviations, drafts can always be submitted as a process revision.

See also: [Creating Process Drafts](/en/processes/create-process-drafts)