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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 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, like notebooks and models, and other types of assets.

Requirements and restrictions

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, each user can create 200 projects. See Post-installation tasks for Watson Studio service for details on how to change the limit as project administrator.

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.

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 can 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. You can start adding resources to your project.

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

Next steps

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Parent topic: Projects