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How to create a project?

Projects can be created newly or created from existing project templates. You can also create groups to classify the projects and manage the privileges of the other project users by making the projects private or public.

Create a Project from Scratch

  1. Navigate to Projects tab in the left navigation panel.
  2. Click New Project button in the upper right corner.
  3. Enter a Project Title.
  4. If desired, select a Template and an Owner, enter Start and End Dates, and create a Project Overview.
  5. Set the Group, Budget, Task Layout, and other criteria for your project. 
    • Default Billing Status can be changed when creating a project. It will override the selection in Portal Settings
    • Map a relevant task layout to your project from the Task Layout  drop-down. To view the list of task layouts available in your portal, navigate to  > Customization > Layouts and Fields > Tasks > Task Layouts
  6. Select a Billing Method ( note that this option only appears when Zoho Projects is integrated with Zoho Invoice or Zoho Books , and it is not available in the free plan).
    • Based on Staff Hours - Users are assigned different rates, and project billing is based on the user rates of the team members working on the project. You can set user rates in the Add User page.
    • Based on Project Hours - All users are assigned a standard rate, and project billing is based on the hours logged for the project as a whole. 
  7. Customize the tabs for your project as necessary. You can control the visibility of the modules to others in the project with this option.
  8. Click Add.

  • All projects in the portal will be associated to the standard layout by default. To access the layout editor and make changes to the custom fields, click the Standard Layout link present at the top of the form.
  • The changes made to the project custom fields in the standard layout will reflect in all the projects associated with the layout.
  • Tasks and Issues will have an auto-generated unique ID with a prefix. Learn more on how to edit a project and update the Task & Issue Prefix

Associate a Task Layout While Creating or Editing a Project

When you create or edit a project, you can associate a task layout for your project or overwrite the current association as per your business requirements.
  1. Scroll to the Task Layout drop-down when you create or edit a project.
  2. Select a layout that matches your need. 
    1. To view the list of task layouts available in your portal, navigate to Setup > Customization > Tasks > Layouts and come back to the New Project form and select it from the drop-down.
    2. You can also search a layout in the search bar that appears when you click the drop-down.
  3. Fill the other details as necessary and proceed to create or update your project accordingly.
When you change the layout association of an existing project, the task custom statuses will be copied from the current layout to the newly selected layout.

Create a Project using a Project Template

You can create a new project afresh or use an existing project template to create the project. 

  1. Navigate to Projects tab in the left navigation panel.
  2. Click New Project in the upper right corner.
  3. Give a Project Name (mandatory).
  4. Choose a Template from the list of project templates that are displayed in the drop-down.
    • When you Choose a Template, all the milestones, task lists, tasks, and other information from the chosen project template will be copied to the newly created project.
    • The start time of the project modules (milestones, task list and tasks) will be shifted based on the Project Start Date  of the new project.
  5. Select an Owner, enter Start and End Dates, and create a Project Overview.
  6. Select a Billing Method, set the Group, Budget and fill in other details.
  7. Click Add.

  • When you create a project from an existing project template, the Project Start Date option is enabled.
  • Say, in a project template X, Task A has a Duration of 5 days and it Starts After 2 days. 
    • Now, when you choose this template X and set the new  Project Start Date to Jan 15th 2016, Task A's Start Date will be shifted to Jan 17th 2016 and the End Date will now be Jan 22nd 2016.
    • The newly selected Project Start Date will automatically shift all your milestones, tasks, subtasks, forums, and documents in the selected project template.

Create a Strict Project (Premium and Enterprise Plans) 

Strict projects have a fixed schedule. It is preferable to plan all the project activities within the schedule. Projects following the strict methodology are more successful because their project modules cannot extend beyond the scheduled project dates.

  • All strict projects must always have a scheduled project start and end date.
  • If you Make this a strict project, the project modules like Milestones, Tasks, etc., must have their start and end dates within the scheduled project Start Date and End Date.
  • However, this feature is available only in the Premium and Enterprise plans.

And you cannot start or extend the start and end dates for any project modules beyond the scheduled project dates. Such as, Milestones will be scheduled within the projects date range, and Tasks will be scheduled within the Milestones date range and so on.

  • If you do not make a project strict, the project modules can be scheduled without any date restrictions. i.e, It is not mandatory to have a scheduled Start Date and End Date, if it is not a strict project.
  • The project cannot start and end on the same day.

Strict projects are distinct from other public and private projects in the Projects list view as they are indicated with the  icon. You cannot select dates beyond the project's schedule in any of the date pickers, for strict projects. An error message is displayed whenever you do not select a valid date range for the project modules. 

More information about strict projects

  • Timers are not automatically stopped even after the project finish date
  • You can link both tasks and bugs with different milestone dates
  • Meeting and log hour duration are not restricted by the scheduled project dates
  • SLA in bugs do not follow the project finish date schedule 
  • You can add expenses for dates even after the project finish date
  • Task and event recurrence are auto-adjusted based on the project dates
  • While importing task or bug, the dates may exceed the scheduled project dates
  • Bugs associated to milestones, will automatically consider only the Release Milestone dates
  • While associating an existing task template in a real time project, the task dates are auto-adjusted to the scheduled project dates 

Create Public and Private Projects

You can choose to make your project go public or private. Private projects can be accessed only by the member project users, whereas public projects can be viewed and followed by all the portal users. In public projects, users will have only read access but they can view and follow projects and add comments. However, if you are the Admin, you will have all the access privileges even for public projects.

  1. Click Projects in the left navigation panel.
  2. Click New Project button.
  3. Fill the project details and scroll down in the New Project form.
  4. Select either Private or Public as per project requirement.

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