I’ve created a Quality profile by extending an existing one. I see option to change rule but don’t see the option to deactivate rules in the extended Quality Profile. Can’t I deactivate rules in extended QualityProfile? [image] [image]

Hi, This is working as designed. If you want to be able to remove rules, then you’ll have to copy the rules from Default to SmartQuote, rather than using inheritance. Does that mean you’ll have to cascade updates to Default into SmartQuote manually? Unfortunately, yes. HTH, Ann

This isn’t ideal. We’d like to maintain inheritance from a base set of rules - because they are continually improved, extended, etc.

Indeed, this if far from ideal. We have a company wide ruleset and allow projects to deviate in specific cases. As we continually improve the company wide set all changes must be updated manually in the project specific settings. @ganncamp Is this behavior subject to change in the (near) future? So …

Hi @jhoek Welcome to the community! [image] jhoek: Is this behavior subject to change in the (near) future? We have no plans to change this behavior. [image] jhoek: We have a company wide ruleset and allow projects to deviate in specific cases. As we continually improve the company wid…

Extended Quality profile has no option to deactivate rules

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jmothes (Jan Mothes) April 28, 2022, 2:02pm 7

This can now be voted on, thanks @ganncamp !

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Extended Quality profile has no option to deactivate rules

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