# Question about the "Save current display settings values as default"

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/question-about-the-save-current-display-settings-values-as-default/2672
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [October 2, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/question-about-the-save-current-display-settings-values-as-default/2672 "2019-10-02T17:58:19Z")
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### Author: ![Andy\_Bauer](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/andy_bauer/32/5442_2.png) [@Andy\_Bauer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Andy_Bauer)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/question-about-the-save-current-display-settings-values-as-default/2672/1 "2019-10-02T17:58:19Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying out the `Save current display settings values as default` option in the GUI and I’m wondering what the behavior is supposed to be. What I’m doing is creating a `Cylinder` source, the changing the representation to `Surface With Edges`. Then I click on the `Save current display settings values as default` button to save that Display setting. Next I delete my `Cylinder` source and create another `Cylinder` source and what I’m expecting is that the newly created `Cylinder` source will have the `Surface With Edges` representation. Is that the expected behavior here?

Note that if I copy the `Surface With Edges` representation and then later on paste that it changes the represention to `Surface With Edges`. Also, I can save properties like the `Cylinder` source’s `Resolution` and that gets set when I create a new `Cylinder` source.

Thanks,  
Andy

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/question-about-the-save-current-display-settings-values-as-default/2672/2 "2019-10-02T18:11:09Z")

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> [@Andy\_Bauer](#):
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> Next I delete my `Cylinder` source and create another `Cylinder` source and what I’m expecting is that the newly created `Cylinder` source will have the `Surface With Edges` representation. Is that the expected behavior here?

Yes, that should be the behavior, but it isn’t at the moment: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/15313](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/15313) and [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/14992](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/14992). Understanding why requires some investigation.