IDE Services 2024.4 Help

Collect settings from IDEs

The JetBrains IDE Services plugin enables you to export modifications made to the IDE settings by using the dedicated action within your IDE. Once exported, these settings can be pasted into the Web UI. By doing so, the relevant forms in a profile will be automatically populated, eliminating the need to enter the data manually.

Export IDE settings

  1. Open your preferred JetBrains IDE and press Ctrl+Shift+A.

  2. In the dialog that opens, start typing Export IDE Configuration Changes and select the corresponding action, then press Enter.

    Collect Values of Settings
  3. IDE Services will launch the first step of the exporting process.

    Export IDE settings. Step 1

    Click Open IDE Settings, make any necessary changes to the IDE settings, and apply them.

  4. Click Review collected changes in the Export IDE configuration changes wizard. IDE Services will display all the changed values in the difference viewer.

  5. Use the checkboxes to select the changes that you want to export and click OK.

    Export IDE settings. Step 2
  6. Once the settings are collected, you can either copy them to the clipboard as they are or open a JSON file with the resulting changes in the editor.

    Export IDE settings. Step 3

Add settings to the profile

  1. In the Web UI, go to the Profiles page and click the name of the profile you want to edit.

  2. In the Settings section, click the Plus icon and select IDE Setting.

  3. In the Add IDE settings dialog, use filters to configure what IDEs will receive settings from the IDE Services Server.

    Click Add filter and fill in the following details in the Add Filter dialog:

    Add filter
    • Type: select one of the filter types. Select the Include type if you want to apply settings only to the applications specified in the filter. If you want to apply settings to all applications except for the ones specified, use the Exclude type.

    • IDE: select one or multiple names of the IDEs to use in your filter. Click the field to see the dropdown with available options.

    • Build: select one or multiple IDE build versions to use in the filter.

    • OS: if necessary, select the operating systems to use in the filter.

    • Architecture: if necessary, select the architectures to use in the filter.

    Click OK to save the filter.

  4. Copy and paste the generated JSON file contents into the Add IDE Settings dialog by pressing Ctrl+V. This will add the settings to the dialog.

  5. Click Save to add settings.

Productivity tips

Quickly test profile changes

By default, changes in profiles are delivered to developer machines within two hours. In case you need to quickly test how configurations from a particular profile work, you can speed up the process with the following actions:

  • To quickly receive new IDE settings, restart your IDE.

  • Alternatively, use the Refresh managed settings action in your IDE to update the list of propagated settings.

    The 'Refresh managed settings' action
Last modified: 23 September 2024