# Creating & Linking KDS Profile
## KDS Profiles
The KDS profile is the configuration of your KDS machine. Here you can fully customize your KDS machine according to your requirements.
### Pictorial Reference
### Add new KDS profile
1. Click on the **+ Add New Profile** button at the top left corner.
2. A modal box will popup and you will see the following fields:
| Fields | Usage |
| --------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Profile name | Your unique profile name can be anything. |
| Screen name | Your screen name will be displayed on your machine screen. |
| Screen width | You can set your screen width according to your screen resolution. By default the screen width is 1920. |
| Screen height | You can set your screen height according to your screen resolution. By default the screen width is 1080. |
| Kitchen status | Its the status of your menu item. In which state it will be displayed on your screen. |
| Kitchen action | It’s the status of your menu item which will be updated from your screen. |
| Category name | The category name will be displayed on the KDS screen. |
| Categories | Filter out the categories which you want to see on the KDS screen. |
| Exclude categories | Select the categories which you don’t want to see on the KDS screen. |
| Special categories | Select the special categories which will be highlighted on the KDS screen. |
| Rows to display | A number of rows to display on the KDS screen. |
| Columns to display | A number of columns to display on the KDS screen. |
| Skip | A number of orders you want to skip from the screen. |
| Order Manager - Kitchen | If you only want to change the order state in the kitchen. |
| Order Manager - Customer Screen Manager | It will change the status on the CDS screen. |
| Item selection | Toggle on/off item selection to choose every item individually available in the order box on the KDS screen. |
| Print labels | Toggle on/off for your label printer on the screen. |
| Available printers | List of the added label printers. |
| Label printer categories | Choose from your categories which one of them you want to print from the label printer. |
| KDS bell | Toggle on/off for your KDS bell when the new order arrives. |
| KDS bell sound | List of available sounds for KDS bell. |
3. Fill out the fields according to your custom requirements and click on the **+Add** button located in the bottom right corner of your modal box.
### Edit a KDS Profile
1. Click on the **pencil icon** on the left side of the table.
2. A modal box will pop up with the same fields as defined in **Add a New Profile**. You can edit everything here.
3. Once you are done editing, click on the **Update** button at the bottom right corner of the modal box.
### Delete a KDS profile
1. You can also delete a KDS profile whenever you want by clicking on the **Delete button** on the right side of your table.
2. Configurations of the connected KDS Machine will be reset to default after deleting the KDS Profile.
### Linking KDS Profile
Once your machine is connected and linked to the system it will be listed under the **Manager** tab. In case you don’t know how to install and set up the KDS machine you can find it[ **here**.](https://docs.foodbucket.io/installation-and-setup/kds-installation-setup)
### **Pictorial Reference**
## **Link KDS profile with machine**
1. Once your machine is on the list you can attach a KDS profile
2. Click on the pencil icon to attach a KDS profile.
3. A modal box will popup and you will see the following fields:
| Fields | Usage |
| ------------ | ---------------------------------------------- |
| Machine name | A unique name to your machine can be anything. |
| Machine Role | Set the machine role to KDS. |
| Profile Name | Profile names will be listed here which you |
4. Once done, click on the Update button in the bottom right corner of the modal box.
5. Your Machine is successfully linked to the KDS profile.
