Preferences

Your personal settings — notification emails, ingest behavior, profile, custom groups, and API tokens. Opened from the avatar menu.

Preferences are your personal settings. They apply to your account only — not to anyone else, and not to the platform as a whole (that’s the Admin Dashboard).

To open them, click your avatar in the lower-left, then the cog (settings) icon. The Preferences dialog has five tabs: Notifications, Ingest, Profile, Custom Groups, and API Tokens. Changes take effect when you click Save Preferences; Cancel discards them.

Notifications

Controls the emails Pixwel sends you. The master Email Notifications checkbox turns email on or off for your account — when it’s off, every setting below is disabled.

For each kind of event, choose how often you want to be emailed:

Frequency	What it does
Immediate	Email as soon as the event happens.
Hourly	Batched into an hourly digest.
Daily	Batched into a daily digest.
Weekly	Batched into a weekly digest.
Off	No email for this event type.

The event types you can set:

Setting	Emails you when…
New / Updated Projects	A project you can see is created or changed.
New / Updated Assets	An asset is created or changed.
Workflow	A work request changes workflow phase.
Embargoes	A file’s embargo changes.
Shares	Something is shared with you.
Order Status	A work request’s status changes.
Order Graphics Materials	Graphics materials are added to an order.
Order Graphics Materials Comments	Someone comments on order graphics materials.
Order Discussion Comments	Someone comments in an order’s discussion.
Order Preview Comments	Someone comments on an offline preview.
Ingest	An ingest you started finishes.
Others	Miscellaneous notifications not covered above.

Below the frequency settings you can mute specific projects or asset types — pick them in the “notifications disabled” multi-selects to stop emails for just those, while keeping everything else on.

Ingest

Defaults for how the ingest uploader behaves for you.

Setting	What it does
Disable scratch preview for ingests	Skips generating a scratch preview during ingest, which speeds up processing.
Maximum concurrent uploads	How many files upload at once. Lower it if your connection is bandwidth-constrained.
Auto-close ingest modal after processing	Automatically dismisses the ingest dialog once processing completes.

Profile

Your account identity.

Field	Notes
Two Factor Authentication	Toggle 2FA on your account. If your organization or studio enforces 2FA, this is locked on and shows a note.
Name	Your display name — read-only here.
Email Address	Your login email — read-only here.
Territory	The territory you’re associated with.

Name and email are managed by an administrator on the Users tab, so they’re shown here for reference but can’t be edited from Preferences.

Custom Groups

Custom Groups are your own reusable contact lists for sharing. Instead of picking the same people every time, save them as a named group and select it when you create a share.

• Create a new Custom Group opens a form with a Name and a list of recipients.
• Recipients can be platform users, plain email addresses (for people outside the platform), and existing groups.
• Each saved group can be edited or deleted from the list. When you have none, the tab shows No Custom Groups.

API Tokens

API tokens (personal access tokens) let scripts and integrations call the Pixwel API as you.

A token acts on your behalf with your full account permissions. Treat it like a password — the value is shown only once, when you create it.

Creating a token

1. Enter a Name that describes where it’s used (for example ci-deploy).
2. Choose an Expires in period — 30, 60, 90, 180, or 365 days.
3. Click Create token.

The full token is then shown once, along with a ready-to-use Authorization: Bearer … header. Copy it immediately and store it somewhere safe — you won’t be able to see it again.

Managing active tokens

The Active tokens table lists your existing tokens:

Column	What it shows
Name	The name you gave the token.
Token	A non-secret prefix (for example pat_9756bb3b…) so you can tell tokens apart.
Last used	When the token last made a request (or — if never).
Expires	When the token stops working.

Revoke disables a token immediately. Revoke any token that’s no longer needed or may have been exposed.