Creating a project (Watson Studio and Watson Knowledge Catalog)

You create a project to work with data and other assets to achieve a particular goal, such as building a model or integrating data.

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 integrated with Git. If you want to create a project from a file by importing a project ZIP file or create a project integrated with a Git repository, see Importing a project.

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

Requirements

Required permissions
You must have one of these user permissions to create a project:
  • Manage projects
  • Create projects
Project name requirements
Your project name must follow these requirements:
  • Must be unique in the account.
  • Must contain 1 - 255 characters.
  • Cannot include Unicode control characters, any greater-than (>) symbols, or start or end with a blank space.

Restrictions

By default, there is a limit of 200 projects that each user can create. See Post-installation tasks for Watson Studio service for details on how to change the limit as project administrator.

Creating an empty project

To create a project:

  1. From the navigation menu, choose Projects > All projects.

  2. Click New project.

  3. Select Create an empty project.

  4. Enter a name.

  5. You have the option to select these project configurations:

    • Mark the project as sensitive. 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.
    • Log project activity. 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.

  6. Click Create.

Next steps

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Parent topic: Projects