# Python access to servermanager GeneralSettings and RenderView settings

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/python-access-to-servermanager-generalsettings-and-renderview-settings/1369
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 28, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/python-access-to-servermanager-generalsettings-and-renderview-settings/1369 "2019-02-28T18:47:06Z")
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### Author: ![jfavre](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@jfavre](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jfavre)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/python-access-to-servermanager-generalsettings-and-renderview-settings/1369/1 "2019-02-28T18:47:06Z")

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I have been using different python commands to set/get values of GeneralSettings in my python codes.  
settings = servermanager.vtkPVGeneralSettings()  
settings.Set…()

and I now would like to do the same with some RenderView settings. Yet, I cannot find in which python object they would be stored.

They’re defined similarly in ParaViewCore/ServerManager/Default/settings.xml but I don’t know how to gain access to them from the servermanager base object.

Can someone provide an example of setting a Render View setting (not from the GetRenderView()) object (I know how to do that), but I’d like to set/get other parameters to override those defined in $HOME/.config/ParaView/ParaView\*.ini

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### Author: ![jourdain](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/jourdain/32/11_2.png) [@jourdain](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jourdain)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/python-access-to-servermanager-generalsettings-and-renderview-settings/1369/2 "2019-02-28T18:50:07Z")

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> <https://github.com/Kitware/visualizer/blob/master/server/pvw-visualizer.py#L225>

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### Author: ![jfavre](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@jfavre](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jfavre)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2019, 8:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/python-access-to-servermanager-generalsettings-and-renderview-settings/1369/3 "2019-03-01T08:19:01Z")

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Thanks @jourdain. That did it.