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Settings: General

Awaiting review. Converted from the retired kotahi.community documentation and not yet checked against a current Kotahi release.

To reach these settings in Kotahi, choose Settings → Configuration.

Kotahi Configuration page on the ‘General’ tab, alongside ‘Workflow’, ‘Production’, ‘Integrations and Publishing Endpoints’ and ‘Notifications and E-mail’ tabs, showing an ‘Instance Type’ dropdown set to ‘Journal’ and ‘Group Identity’ fields for Brand name, Title, Description, ISSN and Contact, with a ‘Save’ button.

Instance type

Section titled “Instance type”

Kotahi can be configured to meet many types of workflows and use cases (see section titled ‘Pre-configured workflows’). What is also very powerful is that Kotahi comes with some preset configurations you can choose from. We call these ‘archetypes’. Typically you cannot change this setting for a group (tenant) in Kotahi once it has been set by the administrator. However, you can create as many groups as you like, each with its own archetype. Instance types are set by a developer via the system configuration (.env) file.

It is also possible to create a workflow and save it as a template but at this moment you will need a developer to do this for you.

Instance types at the moment include:

  1. journal - a typical Journal workflow
  2. prc - a PRC workflow
  3. preprint1 - submit, review and publish from a single form
  4. preprint2 - submit, review and publish from a single form, and import preprints

Group identity

Section titled “Group identity”

Enables you to set basic branding for your group.

Kotahi ‘Group Identity’ configuration screen with a ‘Brand name’ field, ‘Brand primary colour’ and ‘Brand secondary colour’ swatches, and Logo and Favicon uploads showing the current files with ‘Remove’ links.

Brand name - this enables you to set the name of the group. The group name is displayed in a dropdown menu at login time for installations with multiple groups

Title - is the title of your publication

Description - a brief summary outlining the purpose of your publication

ISSN - is an 8-digit code used to identify newspapers, journals, magazines and periodicals of all kinds and on all media–print and electronic

Contact - contact details can be inserted as plain text

Brand primary color - used for the left hand menu, some buttons, and title texts

Brand secondary color - used for additional highlighting

Logo - the logo for the group login page

Favicon - icon displayed on your browser tab