Creating your first project
How to create a project in Depentra, what the three starting points give you, and how many projects your plan allows.
Create the project
Open Projects from the sidebar and choose to create a new project. You give it a name and pick what it starts from. That choice is the only one that matters at this point, because everything else can be changed afterwards.
The three starting points
Blank project starts empty. You get one group and no tasks, and you build the structure yourself. Pick this when you already know the shape of the work.
The Demo project fills the project with a complete sample programme: tasks across several delivery groups, with dependencies, risks, resources, and budget figures already populated. It is the fastest way to see what every view does with real data in it, and it is available on every plan including Starter.
A library template installs a working project for a specific kind of work: starter tasks in the right groups, the custom columns that kind of work needs, pre-built views, and any automations that make sense. There are 19 of them. See the template library for what each one contains.
How many projects you can own
Starter allows one owned project. Basic, Standard, and Professional allow unlimited projects.
Owning a project is different from being a member of one. Projects other people invite you to do not count against your own limit, so a Starter account can own one project and still be a member of any number of others.
If something goes wrong
If a template fails to install, the empty project shell is rolled back rather than left behind, so you will not end up with a half-built project to clean up. The error message names the template that failed.