Creating a project

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.
  • 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.
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. Enter a name.

  4. (Optional) Enter a description

  5. (Optional) Add tags to find your projects. To add more tags, separate with commas and press Enter.

  6. 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.
    • Allow reporting on asset metadata. If you allow reporting, the reporting administrator can enable reporting on this project's asset metadata and store such metadata in an external database.
    • Restrict who can be collaborator. Select if you have confidential data or need assets from a catalog. If your company has SAML federation with IBM Cloud, you can invite anyone in your company. Otherwise, invite members of your IBM Cloud account. This setting is permanent.

  7. 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