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The Project Module is used to manage and review all project activity at that major / top level. You can also use the User Manual - Tasks for managing the day to day / task based activities.

You'll notice in the top right hand side of the module header The User Interface#Module Headers there is a box labelled Company / Division - this filter is automatically set to the company that the user who is logged in belongs to. The list of projects is therefore automatically filtered to just those that match that company (and that the user has Permission to access.)^[1]

Contents 1 Project Status Tabs 1.1 Listing Columns 2 Sortable Columns 3 Update Project Status 4 Outstanding Tasks for this Page 5 Return to... 6 Footnotes

1 Project Status Tabs

When you access the Projects Module, you'll notice, that as per standard dotProject layout, this screen is divided into tabs - based on Project Status. Projects are then sorted into those tabs to make listing them easy / quick. You can modify the terminology used in these tabs if required - please refer to Configuration#Project Type

1.1 Listing Columns

The columns incorporated in the project display are:

Color	Colours are assigned to projects as a visual "grouping". See also Using_Colour_as_Project_Status
Company	Company that project belongs to
Project Name	Full name / id of the project
Start	Project Start Date
End	Project End Date (as estimated)
Actual	Actual End Date (as calculated from the last end date on all the tasks associated with the project) - ie the latest end date of any of the tasks that are associated with this project.
P	Project Priority (in early versions of dotProject) as of 2.1 it shows a flag whenever a task log has had the problem flag ticked on in any of the tasks associated with the project (note the only way to clear this flag is to remove the flag on the task log). (The system should also be showing priority with the task log problem flag only overwriting if it exists - bug report lodged in 2.1.1 dotProject).
Owner	Project Owner
Tasks (My)	This column lists the total number of tasks followed by the number of tasks that the current user is actually assigned to
Selection	Tick box to select a project - see User Manual - Project Details#Update Project Status
Status	Indicates the current status of the project (along with the total number of projects that are in the same status - see

Many of the names within this table are actually links to further displays, for example, clicking on the Project Name will take you straight to the Project Detail display. User Manual - Project Details

2 Sortable Columns

The Project listing is broken down into specific columns of information as outlined above. You can click on those column headings to change the sort from ASCENDING to DESCENDING (toggles between the two orders).^[2]

3 Update Project Status

Using a combination of the Selection column and the Update Project status box at the bottom of the project listing, you can change project statuses in bulk. Simply "tick" to turn on selection and then choose the new status option you require from the popup listing.

4 Outstanding Tasks for this Page

Go through and link to relevant sections
Link up relevant FAQs

5 Return to...

...back to User Manual - Projects

6 Footnotes

1. ? Keep an eye on your filter settings throughout dotProject. It is the most common cause for people thinking that data within their system has gone “missing”.
2. ? Sort order are not retained for when you next login.