openproject/docs/system-admin-guide

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System admin guide

Welcome to the OpenProject System Administration guide.

In order to make changes to settings affecting your entire OpenProject environment, you need to navigate to the OpenProject administration.

If you are an administrator on your OpenProject environment, you can access the administration by clicking on your user Avatar in the upper right corner and selecting ->Administration from the dropdown menu.

Click on one of the categories in order to proceed with the configuration.

Overview

Topic	Content
Users and permissions	How to manage users, groups and permissions in OpenProject?
Work packages	How to configure work packages, types, status and workflows?
Custom fields	Set custom fields for work packages, Spent time, projects, versions, users, groups and more.
Attribute help texts	Add help texts to explain attributes (including custom fields) in projects and work packages.
Enumerations	Set enumerations, e.g. work package priorities, time tracking activities, document categories, and more.
System settings	Configure your system settings, e.g. a welcome text block on the landing page, display settings, repositories, and more.
Incoming emails	Configure email settings in OpenProject. How to set up incoming email?
Outbound emails	Configure email settings in OpenProject. How to configure email notifications and your email provider?
Authentication	Configure authentication methods in OpenProject, e.g. OAuth, OpenID, Two-factor-authentication, LDAP, and more.
Announcement	How to create a system announcement?
Design	Create your own design and make it compliant to your company's Corporate Identity, upload logo and customize colors.
Colors	Configure colors used in the system, e.g. status colors, work package types, priorities and more.
Time and costs	Configure your currency and create cost types in OpenProject.
Backlogs	Configure your backlogs settings in OpenProject, e.g. story types to be displayed in the backlogs, task types, and more.
Plugins	Manage plugins in OpenProject.
Emails and notification	Manage notifications and email
Information	View the latest system information status.
Integrations	How to combine OpenProject and e.g. GitHub.
Enterprise on-premises	Upgrading your Community Edition to Enterprise on-premises and other administrative topics.
Enterprise cloud	Manage your OpenProject Enterprise cloud and other administrative topics.