{"id":54579,"date":"2026-03-17T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/help\/non-knowledgebase\/uncategorized\/system-settings-for-modules\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:17:24","password":"","slug":"system-settings-for-modules","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/system-settings\/modules\/system-settings-for-modules\/","title":{"rendered":"System settings for modules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The System settings for the individual modules are described in the articles on the modules themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/administration-posts\/posts-settings\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7083\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Posts<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/einstellungen-personen\/system-settings-of-the-person-module\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7246\">Persons<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/settings-for-the-group-module\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/de\/help\/churchtools-module\/gruppen-einstellungen-fuer-das-gruppenmodul\/\">Groups<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Calendar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Events<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Resources<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/de\/help\/churchtools-modules\/check-in\/system-einstellungen-modul-check-in\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/de\/help\/churchtools-module\/check-in\/system-einstellungen-modul-check-in\/\">Check-in<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wiki<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finances<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Report<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finance Sync: Old financial data transfer from Optigem to ChurchTools, which has been replaced by the Sync module.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sync<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Module name<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can rename all modules except for <em>posts <\/em>and <em>groups<\/em> and thus adapt them to the terminology of your congregation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-box ct-box-blue has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-74648fa9a9506de5179716347194bc98 is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-002f1c27 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:8px;border-left-color:#e7c000;border-left-width:0.5rem;color:#3f3400;background-color:#ffe5644d;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0.5rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0rem;margin-left:0.5rem\"><strong>Important<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0.5rem;margin-left:0.5rem\">We generally advise against renaming modules, as references become less clear. The name of the module is only changed in the blue menu bar. The naming in the System settings and in the app remains unchanged.    <br>So only rename modules if it is really necessary.  <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>To rename a module, activate the <em>Customize module name<\/em> button and enter the desired name. As soon as you deactivate the <em>switch<\/em> again, the default name of the module is used again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Deactivate module<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By clicking on the button, you decide for your entire ChurchTools that the selected module can no longer be used. Only deactivate the module if you really don&#8217;t want to use the module in your congregation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-artikel-zum-weiterlesen has-background is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-89fd719a wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:8px;background-color:#f9fafb;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:24px;padding-top:32px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:32px;padding-left:24px\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Read more<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/de\/help\/churchtools-module\/verwalten-beitraege\/49-einstellungen-fur-beitrage\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/de\/help\/churchtools-module\/verwalten-beitraege\/49-einstellungen-fur-beitrage\/\">Settings for posts<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/einstellungen-personen\/system-settings-of-the-person-module\/\">System settings of the Persons module<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/de\/help\/churchtools-modules\/gruppen-einstellungen-fuer-das-gruppenmodul\/uebersicht-einstellungen-fuer-das-gruppenmodul\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"50132\">Overview of settings for the Groups module<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/de\/help\/churchtools-modules\/check-in\/system-einstellungen-modul-check-in\/\">System settings Check-in module<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The System settings for the individual modules are described in the articles on the modules themselves. Module name You can rename all modules except for posts and groups and thus adapt them to the terminology of your congregation. To rename a module, activate the Customize module name button and enter the desired name. As soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[477],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[425],"class_list":["post-54579","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-modules","knowledge_base-system-settings"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":159,"total_views":"176","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"Victoria Weidemann","author_nicename":"vweidemann","author_url":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/author\/vweidemann\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Modules","term_url":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/system-settings\/modules\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[{"term_name":"System Settings","term_url":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/system-settings\/","term_slug":"system-settings"}],"knowledge_base_slug":["system-settings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/54579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54579"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/54579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54586,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/54579\/revisions\/54586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=54579"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=54579"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=54579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}