Projects | Plane

Projects let you manage teams and tasks within your Workspace. After creating your Workspace, you will need to create a new project.

Before inviting a user to a project, you'll need to invite them to the workspace. Then, you can choose to add them to the project from the list of users on the workspace.

Key project attributes

Every project comes with two key attributes that make it easier to plan and set permissions for users on the workspace.

Identifier: The project identifier is attached to every issue in the project to make it easier to track and differentiate each issue across projects and the workspace.

You can always choose to update your identifier. This will only replace the ID string on the issue, but not the number next to it. Note that identifiers can only contain uppercase text and no special characters or numbers.

These options can be found under the General tab inside Project>Settings ⬇️

<project-name>/projects/<id>/settings.

Network: To restrict other users on the workspace, you can set the network of the project to either Private or Secret. When made public, all users on the workspace can choose to join the project. When set to secret, admins need to invite workspace members to join the project.

Project controls

When working on multiple projects, you can set project controls to make it easier. These controls include a project lead and default issue assignee.

Project lead: The project lead will help you identify and connect with the project leader to make it easier for you to assign tasks or communicate.
Default issue assignee: Everything inside a project is broken down into issues. If you want every issue to be assigned, you can choose to set a default assignee for times when an issue is created without any assignees

These options can be found under the Control tab inside Project>Settings ⬇️

<project-name>/projects/<id>/settings/control.

Project members

When the project is set to the Public network under project controls, it is open to all members on the workspace. When set to Secret network, workspace members must be invited to the project to gain access.

For every member that is invited to the project, you can control their roles just like on the workspace. All roles (Admin, Member, Guest, Viewer) are supported.

These options can be found under the Members tab inside Project>Settings ⬇️

<project-name>/projects/<id>/settings/members.

Project states

To organize issues based on the principles of project management, we allow you to create custom states in the default grouped states. This will make it easier to use project views and filtering.

Default states:

Backlog
Unstarted
Started
Completed
Cancelled

Inside these default states, you can create as many states as you like based on the type of default state.

These options can be found under the States tab inside Project>Settings ⬇️

<project-name>/projects/<id>/settings/states.

Project labels

Similar to states, labels on projects help you filter or differentiate issues within your project. You can create and control as many issue labels as needed.

Labels can also be created from the issue detail page.

These options can be found under the Labels tab inside Project>Settings ⬇️

<project-name>/projects/<id>/settings/labels.

Delete a project

We restrict the delete access to project admin, we plan to extend this feature to workspace owners as well.

These options can be found under the General tab inside Project>Settings ⬇️

<project-name>/projects/<id>/settings/general.

If a project is deleted, all of its content, issues, cycles, and modules will also be deleted. Currently, Plane does not offer a automatic backup service on cloud or self-hosted versions, but it is planned on our roadmap.

Project shortcuts

Create a new project: CTRL/CMD + P

Project plans

Cloud: All-plans, no suggestion, no limits.
Self-hosted: No plans, no suggestion, no limits.