Default Palette doesn't stick

[Bryce]

I have set the default palette that I have created and everytime I open a document to CMYK/8, and it always revets back to "Colors" no matter which program I'm in. Is there a different use for that setting? It stays in Affinity 1.

[walt.farrell]

In my experience with Designer V1 and V2, and with using Document Palettes (which I think is the intended usage for the Default Palette function), both versions operate the same way.

When I create a default document palette for, e.g., CMYK/8 documents, that palette is automatically created in any new CMYK/8 document that I create. It is not shown as the active palette, but it is available in the document and can be chosen from the pulldown in the Swatches panel.

[Bryce]

Is there a way to make it the active palette and keep it that way? In v1 I do have my palette as the one that comes up for every document first, including new. 

[walt.farrell]

Just now, Bryce said:

Is there a way to make it the active palette and keep it that way? In v1 I do have my palette as the one that comes up for every document first, including new. 

Not that I know of. And it does not do that, for me, with either V1 or V2.

[Hangman]

The default document palette only works after opening the second and subsequent new documents and relies on having one of the default palettes already chosen in the swatches panel...

If I have default RGB, CMYK and LAB palettes defined but my current colour palette is not one of those three then opening a new document ignores the defaults set but if I then select the default palette for that document subsequent new documents will then default to the specified default palette.

I think it's just as easy if not easier to select the palette you want to use manually, though I think the expectation is that by setting default palettes they will be honoured when opening all new documents, including the first one and regardless of the current palette selected.