Configure Your Compose Preferences

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

You can customize the Compose interface to suit your preferences using a variety of configurable settings, from color themes to SmartSuggest behavior.

Access Compose Preferences

To open your Compose preferences:

1. Click Settings in the top-right corner of the Compose interface.

   

2. The settings window opens with:

   • Preview area on the left

   • Configurable settings on the right

   

3. As you make changes, the preview area updates to show how your changes affect the Compose experience. Settings are grouped by topic in separate tabs. Use the Compose Settings Reference below to review available settings by category.

4. Once you’ve adjusted the settings to your liking, click Apply (bottom right) to save them. Click Cancel to close the window without saving changes.

Reset to Default

To reset all settings to their default values:

1. Click Reset to Defaults in the bottom-right corner of the settings window.

2. Click Apply to confirm and apply the reset.

Compose Settings Reference

Setting	Description	Default
THEME
Theme	Choose the Compose color theme.	Dawn
CODE PANE
Choose your color scheme	Sets the background color of the code editor.	Light
Font size	Sets the font size for the code pane.	11px
Highlight Current Statement	Highlights the currently selected SQL statement.	Enabled
TRUST CHECK
Indication Style	Sets how trust flags appear in the code pane. Options include highlighting or underlining identifiers present in the catalog with trust flags.	Highlight
Indicate items with Deprecations (red)	Flags deprecated items in red.	ON
Indicate items with Warnings (yellow)	Flags items with warnings in yellow.	ON
Indicate ambiguous items (gray)	Flags items that have no trust flags in gray. An ambiguous item refers to a table or column name that could map to more than one object in the Alation Catalog. These are shown in gray. Fully qualified or contextually disambiguated names do not appear as ambiguous.	ON
Indicate items with no Flags (gray)	Flags items that have no trust flags in gray.	OFF
Indicate Endorsed items (green)	Flags endorsed items in green.	OFF
RESULTS
Spacing	Sets spacing between rows in query results.	Normal
Column Titling	Choose between technical names and business titles for columns in results.	Show technical names
Timestamp Format	Set how timestamp values are displayed.	Standardized
Font Size	Font size in the results pane.	14px
Truncation – Max characters displayed in app	Limits characters shown in the results pane.	200
Truncation – Max characters in export	Limits characters exported per column.	10,000
Max rows in query result	Limits number of rows returned.	1,000
Max columns in query result	Limits number of columns shown.	50
FORMAT
Keywords	Formatting style for SQL keywords when using the Format feature.	UPPER CASE
Identifiers	Formatting style for SQL identifiers.	lower case
Indentation	Indentation style in the code editor.	2 spaces
SmartSuggest
Enable SmartSuggest	Toggles SmartSuggest feature on or off.	Enabled
Enable Eager Suggestions	Displays suggestions after typing the first character.	Disabled
Enable SmartSuggest Hotkeys	Enables navigation in the suggestion box using Enter, Tab, and arrow keys.	Enabled
Enable Tab Completion	Use Tab key (in addition to Enter) to accept a suggestion.	Disabled
SmartSuggest Modal Size	Number of suggestions displayed in the suggestion box.	5
OTHER
Title Items While You Wait	Enables prompts for titling objects in the code pane while a query is running.	Enabled
Always Run All Statements and Ignore Errors	Allows all SQL statements to run, ignoring errors, until the full query execution is complete.	Disabled
Show Export Start/Progress Notifications	Displays notifications for export start and progress.	Disabled