Create a project

Create a project from scratch without using a template. This article describes how to create a project from scratch.

Copy an existing project.
For more information about copying project, see Copy a project.

Use a template.
For more information about using a template to create a new project, see Create a project using a template.

Import a project from Microsoft Project.
For more information about importing a project from MS Project, see Import a project from Microsoft Project.

Import a project using kick-starts.

As a Workfront administrator, you can import projects using a kick-start.

For information about importing data using kick-starts in Workfront, see Import data into Adobe Workfront using a Kick-Start template.

For information about importing projects using kick-starts, see Kick-Starts scenario: simple project and task import preparation.

Publish an initiative from a scenario in the Adobe Workfront Scenario Planner. The Scenario Planner requires an additional license. For information about the Workfront Scenario Planner, see The Scenario Planner overview. For information about creating projects from publishing initiatives, see Update or create projects by publishing initiatives in the Scenario Planner.

Your system or group administrator enabled the “Allow users to create projects without using a template” preference in the Setup area.

For more information, see Configure system-wide project preferences.

As a Workfront administrator or a group administrator, you can configure the default settings for a new project when configuring Project Preferences for your entire Workfront instance or for a group.

Workfront applies the settings of the group, if there are any, before it applies those set by the Workfront administrator.

The default status of a new project corresponds with the status defined by your Workfront administrator in the main Project Preferences area or by a group administrator (or Workfront administrator) in the Project Preferences area for a group.

The following scenarios exist for how Workfront defines the Group and Status of a new project:

• If you create a project from scratch, the Group of the project is your Home Group.

  The Status of the project is the default status in the Project Preferences of your Home Group, if there is one, or of your Workfront instance. You can change the default status when creating the project to any status available for the Group of the project.

• If you create a project using a template, the settings from the template take precedence over the settings established by the Workfront or group administrator.

  The Group of the new project is the Group of the template. If the template is not associated with a Group, then the Group of the project is the Home Group of the user who creates the project.

  The default status of a new project created from a template corresponds with the status defined by your Workfront administrator in the main Project Preferences area or by a group administrator (or Workfront administrator) in the Project Preferences area for the group. You can change the default status when creating a project from a template, to any of the statuses of the Group of the project which is either the Group of the template, or the Home Group of the user who creates the project.

• If you create a project by converting an issue, the group of a new project is the Group of the issue’s existing project. If the user converting the issue does not have access to the issue’s project or if the issue’s project does not have a Group, the Group of the new project is the Home Group of the user converting the issue.

  The new project’s statuses match the group statuses of the group associated with the project, which is either the Group of the original project or the Home Group of the user converting the issue.

  If you are using a template when you’re creating the project by converting the issue, refer to the second scenario above to understand which Group and which Status Workfront applies to the new project.