System Administration

System Preferences
Global system preferences Manage global system preferences like MARC flavor, date format, administrator e-mail, and templates.
Configure these parameters in the order they appear
Basic parameters
Libraries, branches and agency categories Define libraries, branches and agency categories.
Accounts and budgets Accounts and budgets administration for acquisitions.
Currencies and exchange rates Define currencies and exchange rates used for acquisitions.
Item types and circulation codes Define item types and circulation codes used for circulation rules.
Patrons and circulation
Patron categories Define patron categories.
Cities and towns Define cities and towns that your patrons live in.
Road types Define road types (street, avenue, way, etc.). Road types display as authorized values when adding/editing patrons and can be used in geographic statistics.
Circulation rules Define circulation rules in a matrix for libraries / patrons / itemtypes / circ codes (number of checkouts, duration, fee, etc.).
Fines rules Define fines in a matrix for libraries / patrons / itemtypes (cost, grace period, etc.).
Catalogue
Authorised values Define categories and authorised values for them.
MARC Bibliographic framework Create and manage Bibliographic frameworks that define the characteristics of your MARC Records (field and subfield definitions) as well as templates for the MARC editor.
Koha -> MARC mapping Define the mappingbetween the Koha transactional database (SQL) and the MARC Bibliographic records. Note that the mapping can be defined through MARC Bibliographic Framework. This tool is just a shortcut to speed up linkage.
MARC Bibliographic framework test Checks the MARC structure. If you change your MARC Bibliographic framework it's recommended that you run this tool to test for errors in your definition.
MARC Authorities framework Create and manage Authorities frameworks that define the characteristics of your MARC Records (field and subfield definitions).
Additional parameters
Stopwords Words ignored during search
Printers Printers (UNIX paths).
Z39.50 servers Define which servers to query for MARC data in the integrated Z39.50 client.