Projects Panel
Information
- In the Projects panel, users can, depending on their permissions, view and edit existing projects and create new projects.
Access path
- Menu → Projects
- Click on the project title in the Boards panel to open a specific project directly in the Projects panel.
- Click on the project title in the board bar of a board to open the project of the board directly in the Projects panel.
Example
- The Projects panel as seen by a global admin:
Details
- Home Bar (1)
- Menu (2)
- List of projects of which I am a member (3)
- Button to add a new project (4)
- Title and description of the project (5)
- Detailed description of the project (6)
- Tab area (7) to manage the
Details
- In the My Projects area, all projects of which the currently logged-in user is a member are listed.
- When a user is a member on a board of the project, he/she is considered a member of the project as well.
- Projects can be viewed, edited or created depending on the permission.
- By clicking the project title, the project view of the project can be opened.
- By default, the last viewed project is loaded when the panel is opened.
Project Boards (Boards Tab)
Menu → Projects → Select project → Boards tab
Information
- In the Boards tab, the Boards of the currently opened project are displayed.
- They can be arranged in board groups.
- Via the placeholder board card Create New Board, new boards can be created within a project and within a board group.
Example for boards sorted in board groups
Board Groups
Information
- By default, an empty board group Boards is displayed for new projects.
- If needed, new board groups can be created to sort the boards (e.g. by project stages or departments).
- The board groups as well as the boards themselves can be arranged in the Projects panel using Drag&Drop.
- In the Boards panel, the sorting is not displayed. Here, all boards are sorted alphabetically.
Create a New Board Group
- Menu → Projects → Select project → Boards tab
- Click Add New Group.
- Enter a title for the board group.
- Click Create.
Edit Board Group
- Menu → Projects → Select project → Boards tab
- Via , the board group menu with further options can be opened.
- Via Always Hide/Display Boards, the boards of the board group can be displayed/hidden by default.
- Boards can still be moved into a collapsed board group using Drag&Drop.
- Via , the boards of a board group can be hidden and via , they can be displayed again.
- In the Settings area, the title of the board group can be edited. The board group can also be locked.
- No boards can be added to locked board groups.
- By clicking Delete Board Group, a board group can be deleted.
- You will be asked which other board group the boards of the group should be assigned to instead.
- The last board group cannot be deleted.
Filter Boards
- Menu → Projects → Select project → Boards tab
- Enter a search term into the filter field in the upper right corner in order to display only boards which contain the search term.
- The search term will be searched for in board titles and board descriptions.
- Boards which don’t belong to a board group will not be filtered, but are always displayed.
Notes
- Board groups can only be created and edited by global admins or by project admins.
- When a board is assigned to a project in the Administration panel later, it will first appear in the Boards Without Group area in the Boards tab. It can be assigned to a board group using Drag&Drop.
Project Templates (Board Templates Tab)
This feature is only available in the premium version of PLANTA pulse.
Via the listbox in the upper right, you can switch to the online help of the premium variant.
Project Members (Members Tab)
Menu → Projects → Select project → Members
Information
- In this area, members can be added to or removed from the project and the permissions of the individual members can be edited.
Note
- The members of the projects will automatically be added to all newly created boards of the project.
Project Settings (Settings Tab)
Menu → Projects → Select project → Settings
Information
- In the Settings tab, the settings of the project can be managed.
- By clicking the Delete Project button, the project can be deleted.
Procedure
- Perform the required changes in the Settings area (e.g. changing the title or the project key).
- Click Save.
Details
- The regular expression for the project key pattern can be edited in the Administration panel.
- The comment format template defines in which format time recording comments will be synchronized from PLANTA pulse to PLANTA project.
- This setting is only relevant for PLANTA Hybrid projects and is only displayed for these projects.
- The comment format template can also be edited globally in the Administration panel in the Settings tab → Time Recording Settings.
- In the Detailed Description field, a more detailed description of the project can be entered.
- Via the Hide Project in Time Recording Panel checkbox, the cards and hours worked of the project can be hidden in the Time Recording panel.
- Recording hours worked directly on cards of the project is still possible, but these hours will not be displayed in the Time Recording panel.
- The listbox Enable Linking of Boards and Cards defines whether linking boards and cards will be allowed in the project.
- The listbox is displayed only when the parameter of the same name in the Administration panel has been activated.
Notes
- The Settings tab is only available for project admins and global admins.
- The other members of the project cannot access the Settings tab.
- Projects can also be edited in the Administration panel.
- Only global admins can access the Administration panel.
- In the Administration panel, existing boards can be assigned to a project.