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Projects and their dashboard
Make a project and read its dashboard at a glance.
A project is the top level: a product, a client, or anything big enough to have its own task IDs. Each one is a YouTrack project, so it shows up in YouTrack too.
Make a projectLink to this section
Click the + beside Projects in the sidebar. Set up your first project walks through the rest. You can also pick New project from a project's right-click menu or from the command palette.
Give it a name and a key. The key starts every task ID (CT-12), and Suru Me suggests one from the name: the initials of a few words, or the first letters of one word. You become the project lead, and the project starts with Suru Me's default states.
You only see the + if YouTrack lets you create projects. If it doesn't, ask your YouTrack admin.
The dashboardLink to this section
Clicking a project opens its dashboard at /p/<KEY>, a summary of the whole project read live from YouTrack. Each panel shows a placeholder until its data arrives.
Four numbers come first, each with a line of context:
- Open, with how many are new this week.
- Done in the last 7 days.
- Overdue, with how many are due in the next 7 days. A project without a due-date field shows Unassigned here instead.
- Unsorted, the issues not yet under an epic. See Unsorted.
The main column shows where the work is:
- Areas, each with its open count, share done and open epics. Click one to open its dashboard.
- Epics in motion, latest activity first, with progress.
- Recently active issues.
The side column shows how it splits: Status and Priority as one bar each in YouTrack's own colours, Who's on what (open issues per person, Unassigned last), and Due (late first, then the next 7 days).
Rename from the titleLink to this section
The title at the top of a page renames what it names. Click it (or press Enter or F2 when it has focus), type, and press Enter or click away. It saves at once, with no confirmation. Esc puts the old name back, and an empty name changes nothing.
This works on a project's dashboard, an area's dashboard and list, an epic's page, one of your My work lists and a saved view. The sidebar, the crumbs and the command palette pick up the new name. If YouTrack refuses the change, the old name comes back with a line saying why it didn't save.
Projects and areas can be renamed by people who may change the project, and views by their owner. For everyone else the title is plain text. Fixed pages like Home, Inbox and Settings can't be renamed.
Calendar and timeLink to this section
When the project has a due-date field, a Calendar panel under the main column shows every open issue due this month. Drag an issue to another day to move its due date.
Under it, Time logged shows the team's logged time per week for the last eight weeks, with this week, last week and the total. It shows team totals only, never a person's own numbers, and it stays hidden until someone logs time. See Time tracking and the timer.
Right-click a projectLink to this section
Right-click a project in the sidebar for Open, Open in new tab, Copy link, New epic, Rename, Add area, New project, Settings, Collapse, Delete project and Open in YouTrack. Rename, Add area, New project and Delete project only show for people YouTrack allows to do them. All of them are listed in Right-click menus.