Administration

These preferences are general settings for your system.

Get there: More > Administration > Global system preferences > Administration

OrderPriceRounding

  • This system preference allows you to choose between using the precise value or a rounded value when charging fees.

CAS authentication

The Central Authentication Service (CAS) is a single sign-on protocol for the web. If you don’t know what this is, leave these preferences set to their defaults.

casAuthentication

Default: Don’t use

Asks: ___ CAS for login authentication.

casLogout

Asks: Logout of CAS when logging out of Koha: ___

Default: No

Values:

  • No

  • Yes

Description:

  • CAS single logout means that a user gets logged out not only from the CAS server but also from all visited CAS client applications when logged out in one of them or after reaching a timeout.

    Note

    The CAS server has to be set up to allow single logout for this to take effect, otherwise the behavior will remain unchanged

casServerUrl

Asks: The CAS Authentication Server can be found at ___

Google OpenID Connect

Visit the Google Developers Console to obtain OAuth 2.0 credentials such as a client ID and client secret that are known to both Google and your application.

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  • Create a project, and give it some details to help you identify it later

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  • Next search for the Google Identity and Access Management API

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  • Enable the Google Identity and Access Management API

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  • Go to ‘Credentials’ and set the OAuth cosent screen values

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  • Next choose to ‘Create credentials’ from the ‘Credentials’ page

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  • Choose ‘Web application’ from the ‘Application type’ menu and fill in the form presented

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  • You will be presented with your values for your client ID and your client secret after saving

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GoogleOAuth2ClientID

Asks: Google OAuth2 Client ID: ___

Description:

GoogleOAuth2ClientSecret

Asks: Google OAuth2 Client Secret: ___

Description:

GoogleOpenIDConnect

Asks: Use Google OpenID Connect login in the OPAC: ___

Default: No

Note

You will need to select OAuth2 when creating an app in the google cloud console, and set the web origin to your_opac_url and the redirect url to your_opac_url/cgi-bin/koha/svc/auth/googleopenidconnect .

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Values:

  • No

  • Yes

Description:

GoogleOpenIDConnectAutoRegister

Asks: ___ patrons logging in with Google Open ID to automatically register.

Default: Don’t Allow

Values:

  • Don’t Allow

  • Allow

Description:

GoogleOpenIDConnectDefaultBranch

Asks: Use this branchcode when automatically registering a Google OpenID patron: ___

Description:

GoogleOpenIDConnectDefaultCategory

Asks: Use this category code when automatically registering a Google OpenID patron: ___

Description:

GoogleOpenIDConnectDomain

Asks: Restrict Google OpenID Connect to this domain (or subdomain of this domain): ___

Note

Leave blank for all google domains

Description:

  • This system preference limits the log in of patrons to certain domains.

Interface options

These preference are related to your Koha interface

AddressForFailedOverdueNotices

Default: Blank

Asks: Email address failed overdue notices are sent to: ___ If left empty then it will fallback to the first defined address in the following list: Library ReplyTo, Library Email, ReplytoDefault and KohaAdminEmailAddress.

Description:

  • This system preference controls where the summarized overdue email for patrons without email addresses is sent to.

DebugLevel

Default: lots of

Asks: Show ___ debugging information in the browser when an internal error occurs.

Values:

  • lots of - will show as much information as possible

  • no - will only show basic error messages

  • some - will show only some of the information available

Description:

  • This system preference determines how much information will be sent to the user’s screen when the system encounters an error. The most detail will be sent when the value level is set at 2, some detail will be sent when the value is set at 1, and only a basic error message will display when the value is set at 0. This setting is especially important when a system is new and the administration is interested in working out the bugs (errors or problems) quickly. Having detailed error messages makes quick fixes more likely in problem areas.

DefaultToLoggedInLibraryCircRules

Default: all libraries

Asks: When editing circulation rules show ___ the rules by default.

Values:

  • all libraries

  • logged in library’s

Description:

DefaultToLoggedInLibraryNoticesSlips

Default: all libraries

Asks: When editing notices and slips show the ___ notices and slips by default.

Values:

  • all libraries

  • logged in library’s

Description:

  • This system preference controls the default value in the library pull down found at the top of the notices and slips tool.

DefaultToLoggedInLibraryOverdueTriggers

Default: all libraries

Asks: When editing overdue notice/status triggers show the ___ rules by default.

Values:

  • all libraries

  • logged in library’s

Description:

CSVDelimiter

Asks: Default separator for columns in an exported CSV file: ___.

Default: semicolons

Values:

  • #’s

  • backslashes

  • commas

  • semicolons

  • slashes

  • tabs

Description:

  • This system preference determines how reports exported from Koha will separate data. In many cases you will be able to change this option when exporting if you’d like.

EmailOverduesNoEmail

Default: don’t send

Asks: ___ overdue notices for patrons without email address to staff.

Values:

  • Don’t send

  • Send

Description:

  • If this system preference is enabled, overdue notices for patrons without an email address will be sent to staff.

KohaAdminEmailAddress

This is the default ‘From’ address for emails unless there is one for the particular library, and is referred to when an internal error occurs.

Asks: Use ___ as the email address for the administrator of Koha.

Description:

  • This system preference allows one email address to be used in warning messages set to the OPAC. If no email address is set for the library this address will receive messages from patrons regarding modification requests, purchase suggestions, and questions or information regarding overdue notices. It is recommended that a email address that can be accessed by multiple staff members be used for this purpose so that if one librarian is out the others can address these requests. This email address can be changed when needed.

noItemTypeImages

Asks: ___ itemtype icons in the staff interface.

Default: Show

Values:

  • Don’t show

  • Show

Description:

  • This system preference allows the system administrator to determine if users will be able to set and see an item type icon in the catalog in the staff interface.

  • If images of item types are disabled, text labels for item types will still appear in the staff interface.

  • The OpacNoItemTypeImages system preference is used to show or hide the itemtype images in the OPAC.

ReplytoDefault

Asks: Use ___ as the email address that will be set as the replyto in emails

Description:

  • By default replies to notice emails will go to the library email address, if you would like to specify a default email address for all replies to notices you can do that here.

ReturnpathDefault

Asks: Use ___ as the email address set as the return path, if you leave this empty the KohaAdminEmailAddress will be used.

Description:

  • The return path is the email address that bounces will be delivered to. By default bounced notices will go to the library email address, if you would like to specify a default email address for bounces to go to then fill in this system preference.

SendAllEmailsTo

Asks: Email to redirect all messages to: ___ (Leave this field empty to send messages to their normal recipient)

Description:

  • This system preference is used to override any patron email address with this one when sending notices. This is meant to be used in a testing environment to test notices and to avoid spamming patrons.

Important

This is not to be used in a production environment. Otherwise, no patron will receive their intended notices.

virtualshelves

Default: Allow

Asks: ___ staff and patrons to create and view saved lists of books.

Values:

  • Allow

  • Don’t Allow

Description:

  • This system preference controls whether the lists functionality will be available in the staff interface and OPAC. If this is set to “Don’t allow” then no one will be able to save items to public or private lists.

Login options

These preferences are related to logging into your Koha system

AutoLocation

Default: Don’t require

Asks: ___ staff to log in from a computer in the IP address range specified by their library (if any).

  • Set IP address range in the library administration area

    • Get there: More > Administration > Basic Parameters > Libraries

Values:

  • Don’t require

  • Require

Description:

  • This system preference protects the system by blocking unauthorized users from accessing the staff interface program and settings. Authorized and unauthorized users are determined by their computer’s IP addresses. When the preference is set to ‘Require’, IP authorization is in effect and unauthorized IP addresses will be blocked. This means that staff cannot work from home unless their IP address has been authorized. When set to ‘Don’t require’, anyone with a staff interface login will have access no matter which IP address they are using.

IndependentBranches

Asks: Prevent staff (but not superlibrarians) from modifying objects (holds, items, patrons, etc.) belonging to other libraries: ___

Default: No

Values:

  • No

  • Yes

Description:

  • This system preference should only be used by library systems which are sharing a single Koha installation among multiple branches but are considered independent organizations, meaning they do not share material or patrons with other branches and do not plan to change that in the future. If set to ‘Yes’ it increases the security between library branches by:

    • prohibiting staff users from logging into another library from within the staff interface,

    • filtering out patrons from patron searches who are not a part of the login library conducting the search,

    • limiting the location choices to the login library when adding or modifying an item record,

    • preventing users from other library locations from placing holds or checking out materials from library branches other than their own, and

    • preventing staff from editing item records which belong to other library branches.

    All of these security safeguards can be overridden only by the superlibrarian, the highest level of privileges.

Warning

It is important that this value be set before going live and that it NOT be changed while in production.

IndependentBranchesPatronModifications

Default: No

Asks: Prevent staff (but not superlibrarians) from viewing and approving/denying patron modification requests for patrons belonging to other libraries. ___

Values:

  • No

  • Yes

SessionRestrictionByIP

Default: Enable

Asks: ___ check for change in remote IP address for session security. Disable only when remote IP address changes frequently.

Values:

  • Disable

  • Enable

Description:

  • When this system preference is set to ‘Enable’ Koha will log you out of the staff interface if your IP address changes as a security measure. For some systems the IP address changes frequently so you’ll want to set this system preference to ‘Disable’ to prevent Koha from logging you out of the staff interface every time that happens.

    Important

    This is meant to help those whose IP address changes several times during the day, setting this system preference to ‘Disable’ is not recommended otherwise because it is removing important security features from your staff interface.

SessionStorage

Default: in the MySQL database

Asks: Store login session information ___

Values:

  • as temporary files

  • in the MySQL database

  • in the PostgreSQL database

    • Important

      PostgreSQL is not yet supported

Description:

  • This system preference allows administrators to choose what format session data is stored in during web sessions.

timeout

Default: 12000000

Asks: Automatically log out users after ___ seconds of inactivity.

Description:

  • This system preference sets the length of time the staff interface or OPAC accounts can be left inactive before re-logging in is necessary. The value of this system preference is in seconds. At this time, the amount of time before a session times out must be the same for both the Staff Client and the OPAC.

SSL client certificate authentication

AllowPKIAuth

Default: no

Asks: Use ___ field for SSL client certificate authentication

Values:

  • no

  • the common name

  • the email address

System preferences

UnsubscribeReflectionDelay, PatronAnonymizeDelay & Patron Removal Delay

  • This is a new feature that allows you to set a certain amount of days after a patron has submitted an unsubscribe request(refused consent), anonymize accounts that are locked/expired and remove anonymized patrons.

SearchEngine

Default: Zebra

Asks: Use following search engine: ___

Values:

  • Elasticsearch

  • Zebra

Share anonymous usage statistics

As an open source project Koha is used all over the world. These preference will help us keep more accurate statistics on where Koha is being used. If you choose to share your information, it will be published on the Hea Koha community website. You will need to enable the share usage stats cronjob to send this information at regular intervals to the community.

UsageStats

Default: Don’t share

Asks: ___ anonymous Koha usage data with the Koha community.

Values:

  • Don’t share

  • Share

Description:

  • This data is stored to help track usage of Koha around the world. If you choose to share your information, it will be published on the Hea Koha community website. This information is sent using the share usage stats cronjob.

UsageStatsCountry

Asks: The country where your library is located: ___

Description:

  • This data is stored to help track usage of Koha around the world. If you choose to share your information, it will be published on the Hea Koha community website. This information is sent using the share usage stats cronjob.

    Important

    This system preference depends on the UsageStats preference. Set that to ‘Share’ to share your information.

UsageStatsGeolocation

Asks: Geolocation of the main library: ___

Default: blank

Description:

  • Note that this value has no effect if the UsageStats system preference is set to ‘Don’t share’.

  • The information in this system preference is populated by the geolocation information on the usage statistics administration page.

UsageStatsLibrariesInfo

Default: Do not Share

Asks: ___ libraries information (name, url, country) Note that this value has no effect if the UsageStats system preference is set to “Don’t share”

Values:

  • Do not Share

  • Share

UsageStatsLibraryName

Asks: The library name ___ will be shown on the Hea Koha community website.

Description:

  • This data is stored to help track usage of Koha around the world. If you choose to share your information, it will be published on the Hea Koha community website. This information is sent using the share usage stats cron job.

    Important

    This system preference depends on the UsageStats preference. Set that to ‘Share’ to share your information. If this field is empty data will be sent anonymously if you choose ‘Share’ for the UsageStats preference.

UsageStatsLibraryType

Default: public

Asks: The library type ___ will be shown on the Hea Koha community website.

Values:

  • academic

  • corporate

  • government

  • private

  • public

  • religious organization

  • research

  • school

  • society or association

  • subscription

Description:

  • This data is stored to help track usage of Koha around the world. If you choose to share your information, it will be published on the Hea Koha community website. This information is sent using the share usage stats cronjob.

    Important

    This system preference depends on the UsageStats preference. Set that to ‘Share’ to share your information.

UsageStatsLibraryUrl

Asks: The library URL ___ will be shown on the Hea Koha community website.

Description:

  • This data is stored to help track usage of Koha around the world. If you choose to share your information, it will be published on the Hea Koha community website. This information is sent using the share usage stats cronjob.

    Important

    This system preference depends on the UsageStats preference. Set that to ‘Share’ to share your information.