User guide

Welcome to the OpenProject User guide.

This guide covers all of OpenProject’s functionalities from a user’s perspective.

Overview of projects in OpenProject

Your work within OpenProject can be organized into multiple projects, each with a distinct set of members and their respective roles in that project. In turn, each project can be individually configured with regards to the enabled features, called Modules in OpenProject. This distinction between projects provides you with a lot of flexibility to set up your work, and control what users are allowed to view and/or collaborate on in each individual project.

Both the community edition and Enterprise edition allow you to create an unlimited number of projects to separate your work. To learn more about the creation and management of projects within OpenProject, please visit our separate section on projects.

Overview of modules in OpenProject

Within a project Modules can be activated and deactivated under “Modules” in the project settings menu by project members who have sufficient permissions to adjust project settings. Which modules will be available within projects is controlled in the global Administration settings (please see System admin guide to see how this is done).

Please choose the module or topic you want to learn more about.

Topic	Content
Project overview page	How to create a project overview dashboard with important project information.
Activity	How to find out about the latest activities in a project.
Backlogs (Scrum)	How to manage a Scrum team in OpenProject with a product backlog and taskboard.
Baseline comparison	View and compare changes in a work package table within a given period of time.
Boards	How to work with Agile boards for agile project management, e.g. Kanban.
Budgets	How to create and manage a project budget.
Calendar	How to display your work in a calendar in OpenProject.
Documents	How to upload and share documents in OpenProject.
Forums	How to manage forums to discuss and comment on topics.
GitHub	How to manage the GitHub integration.
Meetings	How to manage meetings to create and share meeting agenda and meeting minutes.
News	How to create and manage News for your projects.
Using the Nextcloud integration	How to link and use Nextcloud files and folders in OpenProject.
Team planner	How to use the team planner module.
Time and costs	How to track time and costs in OpenProject and report spent time and costs.
Roadmap	How to create a product roadmap with OpenProject.
Wiki	How to create and manage a wiki to collaboratively document and share information.
Work packages	How to manage your work in a project.
Gantt chart	How to create and manage a project plan in a Gantt chart.
Members	How to manage Members in a project.
Manage projects	Edit, create, copy, delete projects and change project settings.