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title: "Layout Preferences"
slug: "layout-preferences"
description: "Customize your Kentik portal layout with user-specific preferences, adjusting details pane display and query sidebar location for optimal navigation."
updated: 2025-09-12T17:32:46Z
published: 2025-09-12T17:32:46Z
canonical: "kb.kentik.com/layout-preferences"
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# Layout Preferences

**Layout Preferences** enable you to override, on an individual basis, the default layout behavior of the Kentik portal.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/082e25b5-afce-42d4-8f47-70bd3f1d02b7/Images/Documentation/image(106).png)

*Layout preferences enable you to customize layout on some portal pages.*

The fields on the Layout Preferences page are advanced settings that override default layout behavior in the v4 portal. These are user-specific settings that each user in your organization can set independently, regardless of user level (e.g., Member or Administrator, see [**About Users**](/v1/docs/users#about-users)).

## Layout Preferences Page

The **Layout Preferences** page includes the following UI elements:

- **Show details in**: A radio button that determines whether Details panes are shown in a drawer or a dock (see [**Details Pane Display**](/v1/docs/layout-preferences#details-pane-display)).
- **Place Query Controls at**: A radio button that determines whether the **Query** sidebar displays on the left or right side of the page (see [**Query Sidebar Location**](/v1/docs/layout-preferences#query-sidebar-location)).
- **Save**: A button that saves any changes you made to your layout preferences.
- **Cancel**: A button that reverts your unsaved changes to the previous settings.

### Details Pane Display

Many portal pages include a **Details** pane at the right that includes additional information corresponding to the selected row of a table. This setting determines how that pane is displayed in relation to the page’s content:

- **Drawer**: Display of the **Details** pane will depend on the width of the browser window:![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/082e25b5-afce-42d4-8f47-70bd3f1d02b7/Images/Documentation/image(108).png)
  - If the width of the window is less than 1760 pixel, the pane is displayed in a drawer that overlays the page's main content area.
  - If the browser width is more than 1760 pixels, the pane will be displayed to the right of the page’s main content area (no overlap).
- **Dock**: Regardless of the width of the browser window, the **Details** pane will be displayed to the right of the page’s main content area (no overlap).

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/082e25b5-afce-42d4-8f47-70bd3f1d02b7/Images/Documentation/image(109).png)

*A Details pane displayed within a drawer from the right of the page.*

### Query Sidebar Location

Various portal pages (e.g., Data Explorer, Dashboards, Saved Views) include a **Query** button at the right of the subnav that opens a sidebar in which you can make settings (see [**Query Sidebar Controls**](/v1/docs/query-settings-overview#query-sidebar-controls)). The **Place Query controls at** radio buttons determine where the **Query** sidebar is displayed:

- ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/082e25b5-afce-42d4-8f47-70bd3f1d02b7/Images/Documentation/image(110).png)**Right** (v4 default): The sidebar will display at right of the browser window.
- **Left**: The sidebar will display at the left.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/082e25b5-afce-42d4-8f47-70bd3f1d02b7/Images/Documentation/image(111).png)

*The Query sidebar, which by default displays at right, is shown here at left in Data Explorer.*