openproject/help/getting-started/my-account.md

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title: My Account
description: Learn how to configure your account
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# My Account

Change your personal settings in My Account. Here you can adapt, e.g. the language, edit notifications, or add an avatar.

| Feature                                                      | Documentation for                                            |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| [Open My Account settings](#open-my-account-settings)        | How to open your personal settings in OpenProject?           |
| [Edit your user information](#edit-your-user-information)    | How to change the name or email address in OpenProject?      |
| [Profile settings: change your language, time zone or display of comments](#profile-settings:-change-your-language,-time-zone-or-display-of-comments) | How to change the language, time zone or display of comments in OpenProject? |
| [Two-factor authentication](#two-factor-authentication)      | How to set up a two-factor authentication?                   |
| [Email notifications](#email-notifications)                  | How to change email notifications sent by OpenProject?       |
| [Set an Avatar](#set-an-avatar)                              | How to set an Avatar in OpenProject to change the profile picture? |

## Open My Account settings

To open your personal settings in OpenProject, click on your user icon in the top right corner in the header of the application.

Choose **My account**.

![my-account](my-account.png)

## Edit your user information

To change your email address or your name, navigate to the **Profile** page in the menu of your My account settings.

Here you can adapt the information and **save** your changes with the blue button.

## Profile settings: change your language, time zone or display of comments

To change the language in OpenProject, navigate to the My account settings and choose the menu point **Settings**.

Here you can choose between multiple languages.

You can choose a Time zone in which you work and how the comments and changes will be saved.

Also, you can choose to receive a warning massage when leaving an unsaved work package.

The auto-hide setting will hide the success notifications for changes automatically.

The blue **Save** button will save your changes.

![my-account-settings](my-account-settings.png)

## Two-factor authentication (Premium feature)

In order to activate the two-factor authentication for your OpenProject installation, navigate to your **My account** and choose the **Two-factor authentication** in the menu. 

![Two-factor authentication](1571992032476.png)

## Email notifications

To change the email notifications which you will receive from the system, navigate to **My account** and choose **Email notifications** in the menu.

You can choose between several email notifications. 
**Default: Send email notifications Only for things I watch or I'm involved in.**

You can choose to receive emails for any events in certain projects or for no events at all.

If you de-select the box **I want to be notified of changes that I make myself** then you will not receive email notifications for changes which you have done. This way you can reduce the emails sent by the system.

![Email notifications](1571835165758.png)



## Set an Avatar

To change your profile picture in OpenProject you can set an Avatar in your My account settings. Navigate to **Avatar** in the menu.

OpenProject uses Gravatar as default profile image. It displays a preview of your Avatar.

Also, you can upload a **Custom Avatar** by choosing a Avatar to be uploaded from a file. Press the blue **Update** button to change your profile picture.

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Note: The optimum size to upload a new profile picture is 128 by 128 pixel. Larger files will be cropped.
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![Avatar](1571844887353.png)