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title: "General Settings"
description: "Various general settings for your workspace"
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![Illustration](/images/help-center/administration/general-settings-01.png)

Found under **Administration → Workspace Settings → General Settings**.

In this section, you define central parameters for your workspace. The settings are divided into three sections: **Basic Settings**, **Attendance**, and **Pipeline**.

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### Basic Settings

![Illustration](/images/help-center/administration/general-settings-02.png)

Here you define the general framework for your workspace:

- **Default language:** German or English. This setting applies to new users. Each user can change their own language in their profile.
- **Brand color:** Choose an accent color (HEX code) that matches your brand. Internal projects are displayed in your corporate color across the app's different views.
- **Country of operation:** Defines the country where your company operates.
- **Time zone:** Defines the location used for time values, e.g. *Europe/Berlin (GMT+01:00)*.

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## Attendance

![Illustration](/images/help-center/administration/general-settings-03.png)

Here you control how working hours are recorded and evaluated in the system.

- **Clocking in and out:**



      - *Simple*: Working hours are calculated automatically based on target hours.
      - *Enabled*: Employees actively clock in at the start and out at the end of the workday.
- **Thresholds:** Define the percentage from which time entries are considered "good" or "bad." These values affect the color display in the team calendar.
- **Default working hours:** Set default start and end times (e.g. 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.).
- **Time-tracking reminder:** Define how many minutes of inactivity should pass before the time tracker reminds the user to continue.

About [Attendance Tracking (Clocking In and Out)](/time-tracking/attendance-tracking)

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## Pipeline

![Illustration](/images/help-center/administration/general-settings-04.png)

The pipeline is the central tool for short-term capacity planning.

![Illustration](/images/help-center/administration/general-settings-05.png)

- **Start day:** Defines the weekday on which the pipeline begins (e.g. Monday or Tuesday).
- **Time period:** Defines the period over which capacity is planned—typically one or two weeks.

About the Pipeline

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## Journal entry notifications

![Illustration](/images/help-center/administration/general-settings-06.png)

Leadtime uses journals to document events, notes, or observations about specific objects, such as employees, projects, or organizations.

With this setting, you can define which users are notified when a new journal entry is created or saved.

Go to [Employees – Journal](/company/employees/journal)