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title: "General board settings"
url: "https://docs.ops.center/en/article/general-board-settings"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2025-02-11T15:21:45.375Z"
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# General board settings

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Feature Note Box  

This feature is available to:

Board admins

Click [here](https://docs.ops.center/en/article/roles-and-permission) to read about our roles and permission.

Operations Center gives **board admins** powerful tools to fine-tune their boards, ensuring workflows align with team needs and objectives. This guide will walk you through the key settings available for customizing board properties, enabling email-based card creation, and leveraging shared tags and categories.

### **Open board settings**

There are two ways to navigate to the board settings:

1.  From the board itself, click on the gear icon located at the bottom left of the screen.

![](https://cdn-assets.productfruits.com/320c2546-6a84-4640-b452-0a391192a7b1)

  2. From the board overview page, where you can see all the boards you have access to, click the ellipsis (three dots) to open the context menu and select **Settings**.

![](https://cdn-assets.productfruits.com/f5f17f45-14a3-42b6-a78b-9c36efb2574a)

### **Go to General tab**

![](https://cdn-assets.productfruits.com/47347e09-4511-4678-8689-9d537abaf337)

#### **1\. Board Properties**

Customize your board's details to provide clarity and context for your team:

-   **Title, Icon, and Description**: Set the board’s title, choose a representative icon, and add a description to help your team understand its purpose at a glance.
-   **Time Zone**: Align your board's time zone with your team's operations. This ensures that audit logs, card activity, and reports are displayed accurately based on your selected time zone.

  Feature Note Box  

Newly created recurrences will adopt the updated time zone, while existing ones will retain the previous time zone.

#### **2\. Card Creation via Email**

Simplify task input with email-based card creation.

This feature lets users create cards by sending an email to a unique address associated with the board:

-   The **email subject** becomes the card's title.
-   The **email body** is added as the card's description.
-   **Attachments** are included in the card automatically.
-   The **sender** is listed as the card's external reporter.

To activate this feature, specifies the allowed domains for security. Once configured, team members can easily send tasks or updates directly to the email generated without needing direct access to Operations Center.

#### **3\. Shared tags and categories**

In Operations Center, each system can have specific **Tags** and **Categories** created by a **System admin**. As a board admin, you can enable these options for use within your board.

### **Contact Support**

If you have questions or need assistance, please reach out to our support team via [OC-Support@genetec.com](mailto:oc-support@genetec.com).