Generic way to store preferences in .bib file

[ColinScarato]

Jabref allows to store part of its settings in a database-specific way directly in a given .bib file: https://docs.jabref.org/setup/databaseproperties I would find super useful to be able to store more of these parameters (use case: a big group of collaborators working on a database under version control, with a lot of settings that we currently need to maintain for every collaborator separately). Given that all the preferences for Jabref can already be exported/imported with an .xml file, could it be possible to automatically load all of these settings from the .bib file in a similar fashion as from an .xml file, in case they are present in a database when opening it? Or does Jabref only support globally setting some of these values?

In particular I would need the following settings:

• mainTableColumnNames
• mainTableColumnSortTypes
• mainTableColumnSortOrder
• customTabName_0
• customTabFields_0
• useOwner
• addCreationDate
• reformatFileOnSaveAndExport
• useRemoteServer
• bibLocAsPrimaryDir
• customizedBibtexTypes

Thanks!

[ColinScarato]

Somehow posted here by mistake, I now opened this issue at https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/8701.