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28 VOTE
Status NOTED
Categories Patch My PC Publisher
Created by Adam Cook
Created on May 4, 2022

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Prevent inheritance for some right click options at product or vendor-level

Today it is possible to set right click options at the All Products level and create overrides at the product or vendor level.

If a product or vendor level change was made to e.g. Manage assignments, and then made a change to the same right click option at the All Products level, inheritance will re-apply down the tree and clobber all previously (and carefully) set vendor or product customisations.

This request is to add a control which allows a user to prevent a product or vendor to be clobbered from inherited settings.

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  • Guest
    Sep 11, 2026

    I second this! We have had to make changes to the top level update deployment configuration a few times and each time it overwrites all of the custom schedules we already broke inheritance for and we then have to re-create all of those individual deployments. If there was some sort of option when applying the new schedule to not trickle down to schedules that aren't set to default or even if you had to select which updates it shouldn't apply to, it would prevent a lot of additional work for us.

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    Trevor Thompson
    May 12, 2026

    Thank you - I've noted this Feature Request and will discuss with the Development team if it's possible and should be taken into consideration or if more Clarification is needed.


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  • Ricky Weston
    Feb 4, 2025

    This is super important for example if you have a sensitive Application which requires very different update timelines (assignments) than your top level default.

    You are currently left with only 2 options:

    • Use only the assignment option configured on top level "All products" and try to find a common setting which is not always possible

    • Don't use top level configuration and manually configure assignments on every app (stupid time)

    Also may relate to - https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-5623

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