# 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 [Retrieving your organizations](/sonarqube-cloud/getting-started/viewing-organizations.md) 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. Click on the action menu and select **Set as Default**. 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**.

<figure><img src="/files/2UlTO1ixwpKPziOBzLvy" alt="Setting a quality profile as a default one."><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

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

* [Understanding quality profiles](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/understanding-quality-profiles.md)
* [Viewing quality profiles](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/viewing-quality-profiles.md)
* [Creating a quality profile](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/creating-a-quality-profile.md)
* [Editing a quality profile](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/editing-a-custom-quality-profile.md)
* [Associating with projects](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/associating-a-quality-profile-with-projects.md)
* [Maintaining quality profiles](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/maintaining-your-custom-quality-profiles.md)
* [Granting permissions to users](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/authorizing-other-users-to-manage-quality-profile.md)
* [Quality profile](/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-projects/project-analysis/quality-profile-association.md)


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