# Managing Projects

Projects are used to group and isolate OpenStack resources, including compute, storage, and network resources. A project can be a department or a project team. Resources in your account must be managed under projects. As a security administrator, you can access IAM, and create projects in a region to manage resources.

#### Procedure

1. In the navigation pane, choose Projects.
2. On the Projects page, click Create Project.
3. On the Create Project page, select a region from the Region drop-down list.
4. Set Project Name.

   - The project name format is Region Name_Project Name. Region Name cannot be modified.
   - The project name can only contain letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_). The length of Region Name_Project Name cannot exceed 64 characters.
5. (Optional) Enter a description for the project.
6. Click OK.

   The project list is displayed, and the newly created project is in the Normal state.

#### Follow-Up Procedure

Assigning permissions for a specific project

On the user group details page, click the Permissions tab, select Project View, click Modify Permissions in the row containing the target project, and then modify the permissions for this project. For details, see Creating a User Group.

#### Related Operations

- Viewing project details
  1. View the projects of the corresponding region in the project list.
  2. Click View in the Operation column of the row that contains the target project.

     View project details and the users bound to the project.

     After you add a user to a user group that has been granted permissions for a specific project, the user inherits permissions of the group and is associated with the project. The user can switch to this project to access resources in it.

  3. Click View Permissions in the Operation column of the user permission list.

     View the permissions of the user for the project.

- Modifying project information
  1. In the project list, expand the region where the target project resides.
  2. Click Modify in the Operation column of the row that contains the target project. In the displayed Modify Project dialog box, modify Project Name and Description.

  The project name format is Region Name_Project Name. Region Name cannot be modified.

- Deleting a project

  After a project is deleted successfully, the resources in the project are also deleted.

  1. Click Delete in the row that contains the project you want to delete.

     Only subprojects created in a region can be deleted. The default project of the region cannot be deleted.

  2. Enter the password and verification code.
  3. Click Yes.

     In the project list, the status of the project changes to Deleting.

     After resources in the project are deleted, the project is deleted completely.

- For details about how to switch between projects, see Switching Projects or Regions.

Parent topic: User and User Group Management