Copying views config between portfolios

I have two portfolios that are managed as two independent PP files (say, portfolio-a and portfolio-b). They belong to different people and use different currencies, hence they are managed independently. However, I want them to look identical in terms of order and selection of fields in various PP views. I can’t figure out a way to achieve that, other than by manually repeating the same configuration steps for every PP file I have, which is quite time-consuming. I attached two screenshots of the same view in two different portfolios; there are 6-7 views like that across PP screens that need to be configured for every portfolio.

I tried setting up portfolio-a as a template, and then copy and rename portfolio-a.settings file to portfolio-b.settings, but that doesn’t work (when I opened portfolio-a.xml and portfolio-a.settings files in an editor, I realized that column configuration of various views is stored in the .xml rather than .settings file). Any advice as to how to achieve uniform UI configuration for all portfolios without doing it manually for every portfolio would be very much appreciated.


Is the option for using the .settings-file enabled at the portfolio-b configuration?

:: Is the option for using the .settings-file enabled at the portfolio-b configuration?

It’s not a portfolio-level setting – it’s set in preferences for the whole PP application, so it is enabled for all my portfolios. More importantly, if you look inside.settings file you’ll see that it does not contain a list of columns for each view - it only store column width and a few other very low-level bits of information. Also, XXX.xml file has unique UID references to XXX.settings, so I realise that replacing .settings file with a different one from another portfolio will break all those references.