Settings > Organizations

The Organizations section of the Settings app is where you establish the categories you want to use to classify the contact people and contact information you add to an organization, as well as any types you may wish to use to classify the organization records for filtering purposes.

Permissions

In order to interact with Organizations settings, a user needs to be assigned the following permissions:

  • Settings (Organizations): Can view and edit settings. This permission allows the user to view, create, edit, and delete all organizations settings.
  • Settings (Organizations): View settings. This permission allows the user to view, but not interact with, organizations settings.

You can assign permissions to users in the Users app.

Settings > Organizations > Categories

Categories are a way to classify the contact people and contact information you add to an organization. Categories are defined by your library and can be used to group contact information and contact people to make them easier to find and identify. You need to first add the categories in the Settings app in order to assign them to organization contacts.

For more information on adding contact information and contact people to organizations, see Contact information and Contact people.

Creating a new category

  1. Click New.

  2. Enter a category Name in the box.

  3. Click Save. The category is saved and appears in the Categories list.

Editing a category

  1. Find the category you want to edit and click the pencil icon.

  2. Make the changes to the category name.

  3. Click Save. The category is updated.

Deleting a category

Note: Categories may be deleted when in use on Organization records. FOLIO will not produce a warning to prevent the deletion.

  1. Find the category you want to delete.

  2. Click the trash can icon.

  3. In the Delete Category dialog, click Delete. The category is deleted and a confirmation message appears.

Settings > Organizations > Types

Libraries may create controlled lists of organization types to facilitate filtering based on the nature of the library’s relationship with the organization, e.g. Subscription agent, consortium. An organization may have multiple types assigned to its record. This value can also be exported within the Orders CSV, when applied to selected vendors.

Creating a new type

  1. Click New.

  2. Enter a type Name in the box.

  3. Enter a type Status: Active or Inactive. Inactive types will not appear in the dropdown menu to assign to Organization records, but will still appear within the Types filter in the Organizations app.

  4. Click Save. The type is saved and appears in the Types list.

Editing a type

  1. Find the type you want to edit and click the pencil icon.

  2. Make the changes to the type name or status.

  3. Click Save. The type is updated.

Deleting a type

  1. Find the type you want to delete.

  2. Click the trash can icon.

  3. In the Delete Type dialog, click Delete. The type is deleted and a confirmation message appears. Note: Types cannot be deleted when in use on an Organization record. You will see an error: “This type cannot be deleted, as it is in use by one or more records.”

Last modified November 13, 2023