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To create a hanging protocol, activate the Hanging Protocol Tool 
. This will show the Hanging Protocol Manager. Initially, a default HP is automatically created based on your current layout settings and loaded studies, but it is not shown in the list. If you were to simply click the Create Add button 
, make layout changes and click the Save button 
, then any time you loaded a similar study, it would be displayed the same way. By default, a new HP is set up with only one matching rule: that the loading study should match the specified modality. As a simple example, if you create a HP from a CT study, then it will apply to every future loaded CT study and lay them out the same way.
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