openproject/docs/user-guide/projects

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Manage projects

In OpenProject you can create projects to collaborate with your team members, track issues, document and share information with stakeholders, organize things. A project is a way to structure and organize your work in OpenProject.

Your projects can be available publicly or internally. OpenProject does not limit the number of projects, neither in the Community nor in the Cloud or Enterprise Edition.

Feature	Documentation for
Select a project	Open a project which you want to work at.
Create a new project	Find out how to create a new project in OpenProject.
Project structure	Find out how to set up a project structure.
Project settings	Configure further settings for your projects, such as description, project hierarchy structure, or setting it to public.
Change the project hierarchy	You can change the hierarchy by selecting the parent parent (subproject of).
Set a project to public	Set a project to public to have it accessible without signing-in.
Set a project as template	Set a project as template to copy it for future projects.
Copy a project	Copy an existing project.
Archive a project	Find out how to archive completed projects.
Delete a project	How to delete a project?
View all projects	Get an overview of all your projects in the project overview list.
Create a project template	You can create a project template and use it for future projects.
Project overarching reports	How to create project overarching reports across multiple projects?

Select a project

Find out in our Getting started guide how to open an existing project in OpenProject.

Create a new project

Find out in our Getting started guide how to create a new project in OpenProject.

Create subproject

To create a subproject for an existing project, navigate to the project settings -> Information and click on the green + Subproject button.

Follow the instructions to create a new project.

Project structure

Projects build a structure in OpenProject. You can have parent projects and sub-projects. A project can represent an organizational unit of a company, e.g. to have issues separated:

• Company (Parent project)
  • Marketing (Sub-project)
  • Sales
  • HR
  • IT
  • ...

Also, projects can be for overarching teams working on one topic:

• Launch a new product
  • Design
  • Development
  • ...

Or, a project can be to separate products or customers.

• Product A
  • Customer A
  • Customer B
  • Customer C

OpenProject, for example, uses the projects to structured the different modules/plugin development:

**Note**: You have to be a [member](../members/#add-members) of a project in order to see the project and to work in a project.

Project Settings

You can specify further advanced settings for your project. Navigate to your project settings by selecting a project, and click -> Project settings -> Information.

• You can define whether the project should have a parent by selecting Subproject of. This way, you can change the project hierarchy.

• Enter a detailed description for your project.

• You see the default project Identifier. The identifier will be shown in the URL.

**Note**: The Identifier cannot be changed later after creating the project.

• You can set a project to Public. This means it can be accessed without signing in to OpenProject.

• Click the blue Create button in order to save your new project. Or click the blue Save button to save your changes.

Find out more detailed information about the Project settings.

Change the project hierarchy

To change the project's hierarchy, navigate to the project settings -> Information and change the Subproject of field.

Press the blue Save button to apply your changes.

Set a project to public

If you want to set a project to public, you can do so by selecting the option in the project settings.

Set a project as template

You can set a project as template for similiar projects in the future by navigating to the project settings and clicking Set as template in the upper right corner. You can remove a project from the template collection on the same spot.

**Note**: This option is only available for Administrators.

Copy a template project

You can create a new project by copying an existing template. Find out in our Getting started guide how to create a new project in OpenProject.

Copy a project

You can copy an existing project by navigating to the project settings and clicking Copy project in the upper right of the project settings (next to the green +Subproject button).

Give the new project a name. Select which modules and settings you want to copy and whether or not you want to notify users via email during copying.

Then click the blue Copy button.

Archive a project

In order to archive a project, navigate to the project settings, and click the Archive project button. Then, the project cannot be selected from the project selection anymore. It is still available in the View all projects dashboard if you expand the filter and select the Archived projects.

**Note**: This option is only available for Administrators.

Delete a project

If you want to delete a project, navigate to the project settings. Click the button Delete project on the top right of the page.

Also, you can delete a project via the projects overview.

**Note**: This option is only available for Administrators.

View all projects

To get an overview of all your projects, select the View all projects option from the Select a project menu in the top left header navigation.

You will then get a list of all your projects in OpenProject.

With the three dots icon at the right in the list you can open further features, such as creating a new subproject, project settings, archive a project, copy and delete a project.

In the view all projects overview list you can also create a multi project status dashboard if you include project custom fields, such as Status, Status description, Accountable, Project duration, and more.

Create a project template

You can create a project template in OpenProject by creating a new project and configure your project to your needs. Name the project so you can identify it as a template, e.g. Project template.

Set up everything that you want to have available for next projects.

• Adding project members.
• Selecting the modules.
• Setting up a default project structure in the Gantt chart.
• Creating your work package templates.
• ...

Copy the project template if you want to start a new project and give the project a new name.

Project overarching reports

Often you need to see more than one project in your lists and want to create project overarching reports.

Click on the Modules icon with the dots in the header navigation. These are the project overarching modules in OpenProject.

Select Work packages from the drop down menu. Now, you will see all work packages in the projects where you have the required permissions.

You can group by project by clicking in the header of the work package list next to project and select Group by.

In the project overarching list, you can search, filter, group by, sort, highlight and save views the same way as in the project specific work package list.