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# Changing default quality profile

With the Administer Quality Profiles permission, you can change a language’s default quality profile in your organization

To change the default quality profile assigned to a language in your organization:

1. See [viewing-organizations](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/getting-started/viewing-organizations "mention") to access your organization.
2. Go to the **Quality Profiles** page and locate the language that you want to change (the default quality profile on).
3. In the far right of the row, behind the three-dot button, select **Set as Default** from the menu.
   * If there's only one quality profile or you've selected the existing DEFAULT profile for that language, select either **Copy** or **Extend** first, then select **Set as Default**.

### Related pages <a href="#related-pages" id="related-pages"></a>

* [understanding-quality-profiles](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/understanding-quality-profiles "mention")
* [viewing-quality-profiles](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/viewing-quality-profiles "mention")
* [creating-a-quality-profile](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/creating-a-quality-profile "mention")
* [editing-a-custom-quality-profile](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/editing-a-custom-quality-profile "mention")
* [associating-a-quality-profile-with-projects](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/associating-a-quality-profile-with-projects "mention")
* [maintaining-your-custom-quality-profiles](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/maintaining-your-custom-quality-profiles "mention")
* [authorizing-other-users-to-manage-quality-profile](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/authorizing-other-users-to-manage-quality-profile "mention")
* [quality-profile-association](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-projects/project-analysis/quality-profile-association "mention")