# Configuring Attribute Settings

Because the Attribute Settings component does not display as an independent portlet, it is not configured in the same way as most Endeca standard components. Instead, you modify these settings in the Control Panel.

- Data source controls: Select from the available data sources in the drop-down list.

- Load from MDEX: Create new attributes and sets based on the contents of the MDEX Engine.

- Create a new attribute set: Create a new attribute set, and then select the attributes that populate it.

- Delete an attribute set: Delete an entire attribute set.

- Add attributes to a set: Check attributes in the All Attributes list and then add them to the selected set.

- Remove attributes from a set: Remove a single attribute from a set.

- Change the global display name for an attribute: Edit the display name of an attribute in the All Attributes list.

Note: Attributes may be added to multiple sets, but there can only be a single display name for any given attribute.
Note: You cannot move an attribute between sets. To accomplish the same thing, first delete the attribute from its current set, and then add it to another set.