Many reply settings can be set in two places:

- **In the request**, with `replyParameters` on each [Enqueue Conversation](/api-reference/content-creation/endpoints/enqueue-conversation) call.
- **In the project**, on your [project settings](https://dash.dumgum.ai/content-creation/settings) page in the dashboard.

When both are set and disagree, this page tells you which one applies.

## The rule

For each reply, DumGum picks the first value it finds:

1. **The value sent with the request.** It always wins, `false` included.
2. **Your project setting**, when the request leaves the field out.
3. **The platform default**, when neither sets it.

A value sent with a request applies to that reply only. It never changes your project settings.

<Warning>
  Changing a setting in the dashboard has no effect on requests that already send that field. If your integration sends a value with every request, the dashboard switch is ignored for every reply. To control a setting from the dashboard, remove the field from your requests.
</Warning>

## Settings you can set in both places

| What it controls | In the request | In the project |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Several messages per reply | `multipleMessagesPerReply` | **Allow Multiple Messages Per Reply** |
| Calm tone with rude users | `preventAggressiveTone` | **Prevent Aggressive Tone** |
| No agreeing with complaints about your service | `serviceLoyalty` | **Service Loyalty** |
| How far the Persona goes sexually | `personaProfileOverrides.sexualDrive` | Project configuration |
| Photo sharing | `pictureSharingMode` | **Picture Sharing** |
| Which guardrails run | `guardrails` | **Core Guardian** |
| Language rewrites | `postProcessing` | **Language-specific formatting** |
| Photo, video and voice analysis | `vision`, `audio` | Your project's capabilities |

Projects created in the dashboard start with **Allow Multiple Messages Per Reply** and **Prevent Aggressive Tone** on. If neither the request nor the project sets `sexualDrive`, the Persona's SoulEngine personality decides, and `NORMAL` applies when there is none.

Settings that are not in this table exist in one place only, so they cannot conflict.

## Three cases to watch

### Objects replace, they don't merge

`guardrails` and `postProcessing` are objects. Sending one **replaces your whole project setting** for that reply. Anything you leave out of the object takes the platform default, not your dashboard value.

For example, if you turned **Malicious Content** on in [Core Guardian](/content-creation/core-guardian) and a request sends `guardrails` without it, Malicious Content is off for that request. Send the complete object, or leave it out to use your project setting.

`vision` and `audio` work the other way: each field is read on its own, and a field you leave out follows your project.

### Sending `pictureSharingMode` turns photo sharing on

`pictureSharingMode` sets *how* willingly the Persona shares photos (see [Control Sharing and Sexual Intensity](/best-practices/control-sharing-and-sexual-intensity)), but sending it also **turns sharing on** for that reply, even if **Picture Sharing** is off in your project. The Persona still needs photos in `shareablePictures` to send one. To keep photos off, leave `pictureSharingMode` out.

### A dashboard switch that seems to do nothing

You switch **Allow Multiple Messages Per Reply** off, and replies still arrive in several messages. The cause is almost always a request that sends `"multipleMessagesPerReply": true`:

| Your request sends | Project option | Result |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `true` | on or off | The reply may be split |
| `false` | on or off | Always one message |
| nothing | on | The reply may be split |
| nothing | off | Always one message |

The same goes for every setting in the table above: check what your requests send before changing the dashboard.

## Check what a reply used

Open the reply in the [Response Explorer](https://dash.dumgum.ai/content-creation/response-explorer). Its detail panel shows the reply parameters behind it, so you can see what your integration actually sent.