Project Overview Pro
The Overview page is a project's front door. It shows the description, how the work is progressing by state, the project's properties, its milestones, status updates and recent activity, so a lead, a team member or a stakeholder can see where the project stands without opening a single work item.
Open the Overview page
- In the project sidebar, click Overview.
You can also navigate to Work items under your project and click Overview on the top bar, or click the project name at the top left when working within other sections like Cycles or Pages.
The page has two tabs at the top, Overview and Milestones, and a side panel on the right with three tabs: Properties, Updates and Activity.
Project header
The header holds the project's identity and the context your team needs.
- Add a custom banner and project icon to personalize your dashboard. Project admins can change both from the header.
- Write key details about your project plan, goals, and success metrics in the description, which is a rich text editor. Anyone who can edit the project can write here; everyone else sees it read-only.
- React to the description, and use Add link and Attach to keep links and resources on the page.
Links and attachments each appear in their own collapsible section below the progress metrics, with a count, once the project has at least one.
Project metrics
The Progress section shows how the project's work items split across the five state groups: a segmented bar plus one tile per group with a count and a percentage of the total. Metrics are displayed visually with status bars to help identify bottlenecks and track progress over time.
| Tile | Counts work items whose state is in the group |
|---|---|
| Backlog | Planned but not yet prioritized. |
| Unstarted | Yet to begin. |
| Started | In progress. |
| Completed | Done. |
| Cancelled | Cancelled. |
Click a tile to open the project's work items filtered to that state group. Until the project has work items with states, the section reads "There're no progress metrics to show yet." and "Start setting property values in work items to see progress metrics here."
Project properties
Quickly view and edit project properties in the Properties tab of the side panel.
- State: Displays the current state of the project (e.g., Execution).
- Priority: Shows the priority level (e.g., Urgent, High, Medium, Low, or None).
- Team composition: See the number of Members involved and the assigned Project Lead.
- Labels: The project labels applied to this project.
- Initiatives: The initiatives this project belongs to.
- Timeline: Manage and monitor Start date and Due date for the project.
Only project admins can change these properties, and not on an archived project. The Properties tab needs project states to be turned on for the workspace. Without them it reads "Enable Project States to view and manage properties like state, priority, due dates and more." with an Enable button. See Project states.
Milestones
The Milestones tab lists the project's milestones, each with its target date and progress. It appears only when milestones are turned on for the project. See Milestones.
Project updates
Communicate project status without meetings. Post updates with status indicators to keep your team aligned and create a historical record of progress. Open the Updates tab in the side panel. See Project updates for details.
If project updates are off for the project, the tab reads "Feature is disabled, you can enable it in settings" with a Turn on Project Updates button.
Activity feed
Get real-time updates on project activities, such as work item progress, state changes, and new members, in the Activity tab of the side panel. Updates are listed chronologically, making it easy to follow the project's history.
