What you need to know
Workflow Projects lists the projects of one department. Each row is one and shows how far its set-up has got. From a row you open the project, see who has access to it, or cancel it. A manager also starts new projects here, for work that belongs to no property and no engagement.
How to get here
In the left menu, open WorkFlow PM and select Workflow Projects. The WorkFlow PM menu shows when you have a role in a department. If someone added you to one project only, it does not show: you reach your work from My Tasks.
What is on this screen
At the top, Department picks whose projects you see, and New project starts one. Below it, Search finds a project by its name, its property or engagement, or its key (type in the box that says Name or key), and Status narrows the list.
What each status means
The Status filter offers All, Active, Canceled and Task board: failed. Active means every project that is not canceled, so a project whose task board failed shows under both Active and Task board: failed.
A department manager or a company administrator also sees Paused, last. It lists the department's projects whose property or engagement was deleted, which no other choice shows. Each comes back to the list when an administrator restores its record.
What you can do here
- Start a project from the list, for work that belongs to no record.
- Open a project to see its values and tasks: A project's page.
- Give someone access to a project, from People.
- Cancel and reactivate a project.
- Try a failed task board again: A project shows “Task board: failed”.
Cancel project asks first, and says what happens:
Who can do what here
Anyone with a role in the department sees its projects. Starting, canceling, reactivating and Retry are for a department manager or a company administrator. The buttons show for everyone; if your role does not allow it, Workflow does not do it and says so in a message at the bottom right of the screen. Paused under Status is different: only a department manager or a company administrator sees it. See Who can see and do what.
Things to know
- Canceled projects stay in the list, last and in gray, so you can find them and reactivate them.
- A project whose property or engagement was deleted shows only under Paused, until an administrator restores the record on Restore Records. Its page still opens, from the row or from a link. See A project or its tasks disappeared.
- A department name with (inactive) after it is switched off: you can look at its projects, but New project is not available. When you choose it, a message says why: “This department is inactive. Contact tech to activate it.”
- Work that belongs to a property or an engagement starts from that record’s page, not from here. See Starting work on a record.
Good to know
A canceled project is not deleted. Its tasks and history stay, and Reactivate brings it back.