Projects Settings

Feature settings

If you are an admin of the project, you can choose the preferences for the features on the project settings page.

Simply click on the dropdown menu icon beside the project name, and select Options.

project settings context menu

Or you can click on the More Options icon at the upper right corner of your project’s Overview tab and select Options from there.

project settings in overview tab

Add task to bottom or top

You can choose to always add tasks to the bottom, or top of your task tree list.

add task to the bottom or top

Add new comments to the bottom or top

You can choose to always add and see the newest comments at the bottom or top of each task.

add comments to the bottom or top

Allow members to edit other member’s comments

You can decide whether project members have permission to edit other members’ comments or not.

always allow members to edit other member's comments

Always display start date or time when set date

You can choose to always display the start date or time, whenever you want to add the date to a task.

always show start date and time

Set the input format for duration and the display format for time logs

You can adjust the format for inputting time duration and displaying time logs in your project. The default setting for both options is hh:mm:ss.

always display seconds when set time tracking

Other setting options for the project

  • You have the option to set multiple assignees for tasks whenever collaboration is required from more than one person.
  • You can choose to change the task status whenever you click on the complete button.
  • You have the option to enable project members to “favoriting” a task.
  • You have the option to hide the time logs and activity logs from guests, which include members invited as “Guests” or users who can access via share project link and public project.
  • You have the option to activate the right-to-left text format.
  • You have the option to enable the attachment of executable files to tasks.

other setting options for project

Make your project private or public

Setting your project to public is only available in the Professional, Premium, Enterprise plans. More information can be found on our pricing page.

You can choose to set a project private only available to your members, or publicly available to any user.

set project visibility

Approvals settings

With Approval, you can send specific tasks to supervisors or stakeholders for their input and approval. This can create a streamline workflow to ensure everyone’s aligned before proceeding.

Edit members’ permissions for approving tasks

The permissions for who can approve a task and who can request approval can be customized.

To change the member permissions for approving tasks or requesting approvals, click on the dropdown menu icon next to the project name and select Options. From the left menu, select Approvals and then hover over a category and click the pen icon.

edit approval category in project settings

Note: Only project admins have the permissions to add or edit approval categories, including managing members’ permissions to approve tasks or send approval requests.

There are three options for setting permissions for requesters and approvers: Any member, Admins only, or Selected members.

edit approval category dialog in project settings

Create different approval categories

Creating different approval categories is only available in the Enterprise plan. More information can be found at our Pricing page.

You can create different approval categories for various stages or purposes in your project. For example, you might have one approval category for approving designs and another for finalizing marketing campaigns.

Note: Only project admins have the permissions to add or edit approval categories.

To add a new approval category, click on the dropdown menu icon next to the project name and select Options. From the left menu, select Approvals and then click Add a new approval category.

add new approval category in project settings

Name the new category, then specify who can request approval and who can approve the requests.

add new approval category dialog in project settings

Notifications settings

You can customize what kind of notifications in the project that you want to receive.

Click on the dropdown menu icon next to the project name and select Options.

project settings context menu

Or you can click on the More Options icon at the upper right corner of your project’s Overview tab, then select Options from there and navigate to the Notifications section.

project settings in overview tab

By default, you will get notified about the task reminders (i.e. upcoming tasks), new comments, and all the other task activities. You can choose which kind of notifications that you want to receive by selecting the following options.

notification options

Note: This setting will only apply to your account instead of every member in this project.

Email to Quire

You can create a Quire task by sending an email to a specified email address. You can send an email to a specific project and assign it to a member or send it to My Tasks as a personal task.

Email to Quire is only available in the Professional, Premium, Enterprise plans. More information can be found on our pricing page.

Send the emails to the specified email address then the email will become a Quire task in the project. Each Quire project will have a unique email address. If you would like to customize the email address, you will need to upgrade to the Premium plan or Enterprise plan.

Note: Only Organization or Project Admin can enable this feature.

project settings email to Quire

Tip: Another way to create Quire tasks from your inbox is with our Google Add-on integration.

How the email will be translated into Quire’s task:

Email Quire
Email Subject Task name
Email Body Task description
To Task’s assignees
Cc Task’s followers
Email attachment Task attachment

Note:

  • If the email is added at the bcc field, it will not be recognized and sent to Quire. You can only add the email address at the to or cc fields.
  • If the cc’d member isn’t invited to the Quire project first, the task will not be assigned to him/her.

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