Creating a project

You create a project to achieve a particular goal by collaborating with your team on working with data and other resources.

You can create an empty project, create a project from file by importing existing assets from an exported project file on your system, or create a project that is integrated with Git. If you want to create a project from a file by importing a project ZIP file or create a project that is integrated with a Git repository, see Importing a project.

Your project resources can include data, collaborators, tools, assets that run code, and other types of assets.

Requirements, restrictions, and configurations

Before you create a project, understand the requirements, restrictions, and configuration options.

Project name requirements

Your project name must follow these requirements:

  • Must be unique in the account.
  • Must contain 1 - 255 characters.
  • Can't contain these characters: % \
  • Can't contain leading or trailing underscores (_).
  • Can't contain leading or trailing spaces. Leading or trailing spaces are automatically truncated.
Required permissions

You must have one of these user permissions to create a project:

  • Manage projects
  • Create projects
Maximum number of projects restriction

By default, each user can create 200 projects across all integrated experiences. Your OpenShift cluster administrator can change the number of projects that you can create. See Post-installation tasks for Watson Studio service.

If your View all projects page contains more than 200 projects, the page switches to a basic view. To support scalability, the basic view does not support filters and sorting based on table columns.

Log project activities configuration

Detailed project activity is tracked in a full activities log that you can download. You can enable or disable this option at any time on the project Settings page. See Log project activities.

Sensitive project configuration

The project has a sensitive tag and project collaborators can't move data assets out of the project. You cannot change this setting after the project is created. See Mark the project as sensitive.

Reporting on asset metadata configuration

If you allow reporting, the reporting administrator can enable reporting on this project's asset metadata and store such metadata in an external database. See Allow reporting on asset metadata.

Creating an empty project

To create a project:

  1. From the navigation menu, choose Projects > All projects and click New project.
  2. Enter a name.
  3. (Optional) Enter a description.
  4. (Optional) Add tags to find your projects. To add more tags, separate with commas and press Enter.
  5. (Optional) Select any of the project configurations.
  6. Click Create. You can start adding resources to your project.

The storage bucket name for the project is based on the project name without spaces or nonalphanumberic characters plus a unique identifier.

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